[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v0] Implement promeg decoder.

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM Michael Niedermayer
<michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 03:00:17PM +0000, Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> [...]
>
> > Error recovery protocols are complicated -
>
> everything is complicated
>
>
> > this project lacks
> > experience in them
>
> The project is made of many developers, and several of them do have
> experience in protocols and also error correction
>
> Just about myself,
> i have written a teletext decoder that used raw 8bit data over 20 years ago
> and it was more robust than TV sets
>
> I recently as part of the SDR work wrote a RDS decoder, which also worked
> better than the decoders i compared it to. Its less than 300 lines of code
> and certainly can be improved alot but there is nothing magic along the
> lines you suggest here. RDS needs both demodulation and error correction
>
> Also i have written a reed solomon decoder based on my own algorithm
> that had better asymptotic speed than what i could find at the time.

None of these are packet based networks. Just because I can drive a
car, doesn't mean I can fly a plane.

Kieran