[Ffmpeg-cvslog] CVS: ffmpeg/libavcodec utils.c, 1.173, 1.174 avcodec.h, 1.455, 1.456

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 02:57:18PM +0100, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
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> 
> > > > * i see little sense in S24 and U8 currently at least, no codec will use
> > > >   S24 internally, and for raw we need many more formats, S24 in 
> > > >   native endian is also not good at all as theres no native S24 on most
> > > >   CPUs
> > > 
> > > all the lossless codecs support 24/32 bits aswell
> > 
> > iam not saying they dont, just that its faster to output 24bit in ints
> > instead of some "3 bytes per sample" format
> 
> ah yes, this was not a question for me as we store it as 32bits in
> libaf/mplayer. and at dvdpcm it will be read into 32bits by the demuxer.

well, if both are 32bit ints and just the max/min is different then i have
no objections against S24

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Michael