[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Port x264 SSE2 deblocking code to H.264 decoder

Loren Merritt lorenm
Wed Dec 17 19:26:58 CET 2008


On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 05:08:18AM +0000, Loren Merritt wrote:
>>
>> I don't plan to relicense to LGPL.
>> How loud will people complain if I optimize x264's deblocker in a way
>> that's not drop-in compatible, update ffmpeg c to match, and delete the
>> existing LGPL mmx versions?
>
> Would it be possible to support both the existing LGPL variant and your
> proposed one at the same time? (via #ifdef GPL)

It would not be feasible to ifdef all the calling c code.
In this case the change in behaviour won't be very large, so one could 
update the LGPL version so that they're interchangeable again. But the 
question was really about, what if I import a function different enough 
that I don't volunteer to do that update?

> Besides, will your proposed replacement be one for a special case like
> filter_mb_fast() ?
> or filter_mb() ?

the general case, filter_mb()

--Loren Merritt




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