[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Make FFmpeg recognize QT version 0 sound sample descriptions and store the palette in matroskadec.c

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Mats Peterson
<matsp888-at-yahoo.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> I've attached a unified diff of the latest Git version of matroskadec.c that does two things:
> 1. It allows FFmpeg to recognize QuickTime version 0 sound sample descriptions by using 36 instead of 86 as the minimum private data size for A_QUICKTIME.
> 2. The palette, in QuickTime video that has one, is put in extradata, to make MPlayer recognize it and tack it to the end of its "fake" BITMAPINFOHEADER.
> This patch is an improvement and tidying-up of a proposed patch by Martin Storsjö, for the record. The version 0 sound sample description stuff is made by me long ago, though.
>

This is an extremely ugly hack. Replacing priv_data and calling into
the mov demuxer? Rather come up with a better solution without the
potential for a whole load of side-effects.

- Hendrik