[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] GSoC: FLIF16 Image format parser

[Lynne]

Feb 27, 2020, 09:09 by aghorui at teknik.io:

> February 26, 2020 12:27 PM, "Anamitra Ghorui" <aghorui at teknik.io> wrote:
>
>> c. I have been looking at the decoder/encoder/parser of the BMP format
>> (which is one of the simplest image formats), the actual decoding work
>> (according to me), i.e. Finding the magic numbers, seeing the various
>> segments is being done by the decoder function and not the parser.
>>
>
> I meant to say, "the actual 'parsing' work, according to me, is
> being done by the decoder"
>
> I'm sorry if I had come off as rude in my post. It wasn't my intention.
>

AFAIK, flif isn't stable (no spec, bitstream may change) and is kind of dead since the author
moved on to work on JPEG XL to my knowledge.

I don't think we should be implementing this decoder.