[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] What should pixdesc.h:write_line() do with PAL formats?

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Wednesday 2009-04-01 02:32:34 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 02:09:35AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > On date Wednesday 2009-04-01 01:47:10 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> > > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 01:03:49AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > > > On date Tuesday 2009-03-31 23:26:00 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> > > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:56:06PM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > read_line() currently reads from the image the components
> > > > > > corresponding to c and puts them in dst:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > (index, c) -> comp(index, c)
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > The inverse operations cannot be done, so maybe write_line() should
> > > > > > simply take in input a list of indexes and write them down to the
> > > > > > destination image, but this will not be simmetric with read_line().
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > To remove the asymmetry we could treat PAL formats like non-PAL ones,
> > > > > > so having read_line() read the indexes and writing them to dst, while
> > > > > > write_line() would write the indexes back to the image. 
> > > > > 
> > > > > possible
> > > > 
> > > > After rethinking a bit about it I came out with this other idea, I'm
> > > > simply extending read_line(), this should avoid bad code duplication,
> > > > please check it.
> > > 
> > > PIX_FMT_PAL or at least the check could then be droped
> > 
> > Yes.
> >
> 
> ok

BTW, can someone suggest a way to test it?

Swscale complains with:
swScaler: Palette is not supported as output pixel format

and I don't know where to find a sample already in format pal8.

BTW there is some specific reason for which sws doesn't support PAL8?

How hard would be to implement it?

Regards.
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