[FFmpeg-devel] maintainer duties (was: Re: [PATCH] fix speex sample)

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 06:04:07PM +0200, Kostya Shishkov wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 03:36:39PM +0200, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> [...]
> >> Also I think it would already be quite simple to fix if we just allowed
> >> packets to contain only palette (without any PKT_FLAG_PALETTE), since
> >> allocating a buffer and merging the palette stuff together with a video
> >> buffer is just a pain to implement. The problem though is that no
> >> keyframes at all would exist then.
> >
> > i think palette belongs in the packet with a frame not in a seperate packet
> > a palette is like a quantization tables in mpeg, we should treat it like
> > one
> 
> Think about palettes in AVI - they are rather codec-agnostic. I think
> it's better to pass palettes as separate packets that can be handled

that requires support for zero duration packets and requires code to
merge these packets with frames in muxers that are not called avi
so unless someone implements these, its not an option because it wouldnt
work with remuxing

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Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB

If a bugfix only changes things apparently unrelated to the bug with no
further explanation, that is a good sign that the bugfix is wrong.
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