[FFmpeg-cvslog] r25066 - trunk/libavcodec/imgconvert.c

[Måns Rullgård]

Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> writes:

> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 07:36:22PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> I fully agree.  I am still waiting for someone to explain what this
>> palette is expected to contain, given that the format does not use
>> one.
>
> What's so hard to understand about that?

I just can't understand what one would possibly do with a palette for
a format that doesn't use one.

> Obviously every 8 bpp raw format can be represented as a paletted
> format.  So in order that most applications (and libswscale) can
> treat them all the same way that's what FFmpeg does.  So you can
> just consider all formats with PIX_FMT_PAL as PIX_FMT_PAL8 with
> additional promises at to what the palette locks like.

If you mean setting a completely useless 1-to-1 palette, that seems
like a waste of both memory and CPU cycles.  Why the hell would anyone
want to do that?  Sounds like just the kind of disgusting code one
might find in mplayer.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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