[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v5 4/4] lavf/utils: Fix endianness in ff_get_packet_palette()

[Mats Peterson]

On 03/03/2016 06:52 AM, Mats Peterson wrote:
> On 03/03/2016 06:39 AM, Mats Peterson wrote:
>> On 03/03/2016 06:33 AM, Mats Peterson wrote:
>>> On 03/03/2016 03:05 AM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>>> with this API each muxer must convert the palette from native endian
>>>> to whatever the format requires
>>>> feels a bit odd to extact the palette from AVPacket.data where its
>>>> stored as the container needs (for some containers) and then
>>
>> Exactly for the reason that the AVPacket.data is stored in
>> "container-specific" (exclusively little-endian, i hope) format, it has
>
> Well, exclusively little-endian in the case of raw nut, at least. That's
> the only format that appends the palette to the video data in each frame
> in the file, as far as I know.
>
> Mats
>
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By the way, would you mind telling me why the palette in AVPacket.data 
is always little endian (regardless of using nut or not)? And where in 
FFmpeg is conversion from native endian to little endian done?

Mats