[FFmpeg-devel] patch for a new H.264 codec

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

2019-03-11 11:57 GMT+01:00, Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje at gmail.com>:

> - How do we set up a fate station with m264 support?

We do not test any external libraries with fate.

[...]

> - How do we test that it still works after we make innocent
> changes to some API?

Same as so far: We remove the feature that isn't updated.

> - If we add new H264 files to our conformance suite, how
> do we confirm that m264dec passes them?

That wouldn't work for any of our external codecs (at least
for some it wouldn't), in some cases the reason is that
the external codec supports things unsupported by FFmpeg,
in some cases there are license issues even with
open-source software.

Sorry, but some of this sounds like a solution in search of a
problem.

No strong opinion here about Matrox but we accepted AMD
in spite of their mails, so I don't see why we can't accept a
non-free Matrox codec (as long as the patch is reasonably
clean).

Carl Eugen