[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavc: remove the QOA decoder

[Paul B Mahol]

On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 7:20 PM Cosmin Stejerean via ffmpeg-devel <
ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org> wrote:

>
>
> > On Dec 2, 2023, at 7:53 AM, Anton Khirnov <anton at khirnov.net> wrote:
> >
> > Its author not only failed to add any tests, as is required by the
> > development rules, but continues to actively refuse to do so.
> >
> > Untested decoders are worse than useless, so remove it.
>
> While I agree that decoders (among other things) need tests this seems
> like an unfortunate outcome from an end user perspective. There are QOA
> samples at https://qoaformat.org/samples/ and presumably someone else
> could add some tests for it if the author can't be bothered. Can we hold
> off on this for a couple of days? If nobody else can add a test I can try
> to do so but I'll need a couple of days to figure it out.
>

Its not hard to add/write test, and even its easy to upload test sample to
server, but last time I did it people complained of too big samples.
So I learned my lesson.


>
> - Cosmin
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