[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] enable libswscale

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 01:04:46AM +0200, V?ctor Paesa wrote:
> Hi Luca,
> 
> Luca wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 19:28 +0200, V?ctor Paesa wrote:
> > [...]
> >> Here is my attempt to convert vhook/null.c
> > I had a quick look at it, and it seems to be ok (modulo the checks on
> > sws_scale() return value).
> > Only one question: is it really possible that the image format or
> > dimensions dynamically change? (I see you added support for this
> > possibility).
> >
> 
> I really added that support because pix_fmt, width, height exist as
> parameters to Process(), if they wouldn't potentially change every frame,
> then passing them as parameters to Configure() should be enough.
> 
> Changing pix_fmt seems overkill, but regarding dimensions, hmm,
> I can read your question in two ways:
> 
> a) It might be possible to find videos were dimensions change, I can think
> of captured DTV broadcasts, they may change size from comercials to
> movies.
> 
> b) Currently ffmpeg is not supporting dimensions changes, at least in this
> quick test:
> 
> ffmpeg -f image2 -i logo%d.png -y logo%d.jpg
> 
> The test source PNGs have different sizes, but the resulting JPEGs are the
> same size.
> 
> But I not sure if ffmpeg was designed to support it. That looks a design
> question.
> Michael, could you please shed some light?

some parts support changing sizes some dont, patch is welcome but changing
size at the encoder side is only usefull for image(2) for normal encoding
ffmpeg should rescale to a single size, at least by default

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