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

[Thilo Borgmann]

Am 27.02.20 um 11:56 schrieb 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.

We had have this discussion before creating a project out of it.
They proclaimed it stable themselves. What do we care if their author now works on something else?

Anamitra, please don't get confused about that.

-Thilo