[Ffmpeg-devel] libtheora brokenness in lavc

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 01:48:08PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> i noticed today while talking on #ffmpeg that lavc has a
> libtheora-based theora encoder and decoder. when this module is

encoder? where?


> enabled, the native code is disabled, which has the extremely
> unfortunate side-effect of alterring the expected and generated
> bitstream format. the codec init headers are passed in-band as frames
> instead of being stored in and read from extradata.
> 
> imo oggtheora.c should just be removed, but if this is not acceptable,
> the current situation is a bug and the header conversion stuff needs
> to be added to it..

i vote for removing libtheora support theres no sense in it, only use
would be debuging our decoder but then there are other tools like
mplayer which can be used and as you say our decoder is disabled if
libtheora is enabled so its not that usefull for debuging either

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