[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] libavcodec skip decoding options

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Friday 15 July 2005 18:00, Loren Merritt wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Reimar [iso-8859-1] Döffinger wrote:
> > Hi,
> > the attached patch adds support for libavcodecs skip* options, esp.
> > skiploopfilter can give a big speedup with h264 at little cost.
> > I need a bit of help with the man page entry though, I'll give the text
> > here, somebody else please put the formattings in (I don't know
> > how to make sub-subsections, and no I don't want to learn :-) )
> >
> > under lavdopts:
> >
> > skip options
> >  all these accept a value that specifies when this processing step
> >  should be skipped:
> >    none
> >      never skip
> >    default
> >      skip when it is useless (e.g. 0 size packets in AVI)
>
> What's the difference between these two? What processing could possibly be
> done by the codec to 0 size packets in AVI?

not much, but there could be a muxer instead of a codec
note, the AVDiscard enum is also used for the AVStream.discard parameter in 
libavformat

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Michael