[FFmpeg-devel] Awakening of FFH264

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 06:54:23PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:57:04AM -0700, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
> >> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 01:59:46PM +0200, Kvikant, Christian wrote:
> >> >> M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >> >>> Sorry, but what is the point of this? ?There is already a fantastic,
> >> >>> open source H.264 encoder in x264.
> >> >> I agree totally. FFH264 is not up to par nether regarding
> >> >> quality nor size.  The only reason for this exercise was
> >> >> licensing. If the feeling is that FFH264 will never become part
> >> >> of FFmpeg, then we will keep it as a separate patch.
> >> >
> >> > a simple and small encoder could be usefull for regression testing.
> >> 
> >> If the encoder uses practically no features it's totally useless for
> >> regression testing...
> >
> > It shouldnt be hard to use lots of features and just write random values ;)
> > for regression tests that would be fine.
> 
> Then we are no longer talking about an encoder in the usual sense.
> Besides, ensuring the maximally awkward values are used is _hard_.
> The conformance tests already do that, so there's no need to duplicate
> that work.

testing the conformance streams need a lot of time, its not something i do
before every commit.
but make test is something i try to do before commit unless its a trivial
change
with that workflow in mind, a small and fast h264 test would be usefull


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