[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] fix speex sample

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 04:46:34AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:30:56PM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> > Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 05:26:11PM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> > >> On 4/8/2009 5:02 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > >>> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 04:21:32PM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> > >>>> 
> > >>>> Mpeg2 decoder has an important bug IMHO since some time. I
> > >>>> reported it, and libmpeg2 does not have this bug and decodes
> > >>>> correctly the first 2 frames. I lack some knowledge of the
> > >>>> surrounding code, but I tried to work on it at least. It should
> > >>>> not take you much time to figure out the problem I guess.
> > >>> thats a feature request not a bug, its something very well known
> > >>> since the code was written.
> > >> What was your argument about other implementation supporting it ? 
> > >> Oh yes, users will stop using yours to use the one supporting it.
> > >> 
> > >> FYI, many of my samples use this mechanism, I just didn't really
> > >> realize it, I thought it was just broken link but finally, I
> > >> discovered that libavcodec deliberately _skip_ 2 frames, even
> > >> without telling you !
> > >> 
> > >> Solution is simple, until fixed I will use libmpeg2.
> > > 
> > > poor libmpeg2
> > 
> > I'd say poor libavcodec, loosing one heavy user because of lousy
> > maintainership.
> 
> not implementing all feature requests != lousy maintainership
> if you want this feature, you can implement it.

So I will rephrase the question: What will it take for you to implement
this so that FFmpeg can be a complete libmpeg2 replacement?

Diego