[FFmpeg-devel] need help fixing sws on PPC

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 01:42:44PM +0200, Vitor Sessak wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer escreveu:
> > Hi
> >
> > Can someone who has a PPC and a x86 play a little with swscale to find
> > out which convertions do not match?
> > This is rather important as our regression tests as well as fate depend
> > on it.
> > Note -sws_flags +bitexact should be used also -sws_flags +accurate_rnd
> > may be needed.
> > Also note, some scalers still use floats to find coeffs (like spline)
> > iam not interrested in them, that is currently area, nearest neighbor
> > bilinear and bicubic are the onlx ones iam interrested in.
> >
> > And last, if something does not match, pleas explain how it does differ
> > +-1 rounding or red/blue exchanged or ...
> >   
> 
> Besides rounding, there is still something wierd about swscale. For 
> example, I was looking at he idcin test 
> http://fate.multimedia.cx/index.php?test_spec=107 .
[...]
> Unless I am missing something, there should be no calculation (and even 
> less rounding) doing PAL8 -> RGB conversion, but it still gives 
> different output with and without swscaler.

I did mention several times that swscale uses yuv internally, the old
scaler only supports yuv420 scaling. So which ever you use when scaling
is involved pal->rgb will do rgb->yuv->rgb as well, and with the old one
chroma would be subsampled by 2x2.

if you only care about the unscaled pal->rgb24/32 case, you can add a special
converter for that case, which should be trivial.

if you want the scaled case to be more exact, the input pal->yuv code and
horizontal scaler should be where you should look, making it use more
than 8 bit per component yuv.

Adding a rgb path to the scaler is possible as well but wont make much
of a difference as the 8bit rgb output will be much more limiting than
any rounding 16bit yuv could introduce.

[...]

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