[FFmpeg-devel] Awakening of FFH264

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:01:55PM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> On 03/23/2010 11:59 AM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> 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
>
> Testing the muxers code path with h264 is also useful.

that reminds me IIRC that tests/copycooker.sh is not run by make test yet


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