[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 3/5] avcodec/mpeg4videode: Eliminate out of loop VOP startcode reading for studio profile

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 12:58:56AM +0000, Kieran Kunhya wrote:
> >
> > About the past, it appears to me that there is a deeply rooted aversion by
> > some people toward some code. This just doesnt belong here.
> >
> 
> Correct, mpeg4video decoding is some of the least understandable and
> undocumented code in the entirety of libavcodec.
> Decoding spans the following files in a completely crazy way:
> 
> mpeg4videodec.c
> h263dec.c
> ituh263dec.c
> mpegvideo.c
> 

> Lots and lots of undocumented heuristics:
> https://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob;f=libavcodec/h263dec.c;h=eae29fa438e3b6b5adadbbe5d94363e2303ef7ee;hb=HEAD#l321
> etc.

Can you post a list of these ? (not just "etc")
ill try to look over them and add documentation

thanks

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Many things microsoft did are stupid, but not doing something just because
microsoft did it is even more stupid. If everything ms did were stupid they
would be bankrupt already.
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