[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavf/rawutils: Make ff_reshuffle_raw_rgb() somewhat more future-proof

[Mats Peterson]

On 02/27/2016 02:03 PM, Mats Peterson wrote:
> Currently the only palettized pixel format in FFmpeg is AV_PIX_FMT_PAL8.
> In case there will be other palettized formats in the future, I have
> "guarded" myself by using 1 << bits_per_coded_sample in avienc.c and
> movenc.c for calculating the number of palette entries in packets
> containing a palette at the end, rather than just assuming 256 entries.
>
> If we can agree on using this 1 << bits_per_coded_sample logic overall
> for packets containing a palette, in the same way as it is done in AVI
> and QuickTime, here's a patch of ff_reshuffle_raw_rgb() that makes it
> somewhat more future-proof.
>
> Mats
>
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On the other hand, perhaps we should leave the palette in the packets 
fixed at 256 entries (1024 bytes), since it's somewhat irrelevant 
whether this "internal" palette contains 256 or less entries. It's when 
writing the files that the number of palette entries becomes important.

Mats

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