[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavf/isom: Recognize fourcc HEVC

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

2018-05-02 23:24 GMT+02:00, James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com>:
> On 5/2/2018 6:12 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>> 2018-05-02 23:09 GMT+02:00, James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Which just made me realize we have been allowing the muxing of all kind
>>> of bullshit in AVI all this time and nobody bothered to prevent it.
>>
>> Yes, I did.
>
> How did you try to prevent it?

I committed a patch to prevent it:
2e0b5f5c

> The fourccs are there and being used to
> mux non standard codecs into avi right now.
>
>> (And thank you for accusing everybody.)
>>
>>> Seriously, this is really sloppy. We're allowing VP9 and AV1 in avi, for
>>> fucks sake. Why is ff_codec_bmp_tags such a dumping ground of fourccs
>>> meant for random muxers?
>>
>> Because merge commits are not reviewed?
>
> eb7f7b797f is not a merge.

ed223eea was and we really had other problems 2013.

Carl Eugen