[MPlayer-dev-eng] wishlist again

[Roberto Togni]

On 2003.05.26 02:58 Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >  > yes, it would be nice, but now very useless (who needs qt dll's
> svq1 decoder
> >  > now... and it's the only user of syuv format)
> >  >
> >  > and paletted rgb support too, it could obsolete vf_palette and
> make
> >  > auto. filter insertion logic in g1/g2's video path a lot simpler.
> >
> > Well, the last time you wished for an improvement to swscaler
> Michael
> > implemented it by the next day.  Maybe you are lucky again ;-)
> 
> no, i've requested this one already several times :)
> but i accept that it's quite low priority and nearly nobody actually
> uses
> codecs with palette (mayeb only 8bpp msvideo1/cinepak and gif are such
> things)
If everyone agree, we could change the codecs to output something 
non-palettized like BGR15 or BGR16, or even BGR24/32 to have a lossless 
conversion.
IIRC all palettized codec are available also as native codecs (msv1, 
cinepak, qtrle, msrle, fli, smc, gif, ...). Do you know of any 
binary-only decoder that only has palettized output?
The only bad side of this solution is that dithering is required if you 
use a palettized vo, while now it can be avoided.

> 
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> 
> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
> 
Ciao,
  Roberto