[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Make global_quality a float

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:40:34PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> The gloal_quality field in AVCodecContext is currently an integer, but IMHO
> it should be a float: a lot of codecs treat it as a float, it is scaled by a
> 118 factor which leads to odd rounding errors, it is sometimes stored to or
> from other float fields, etc.

floats lead to unpredictable rounding, changing it to a float would make
regression tests a step more brittle and less portable between different
platforms that have different FPUs and compilers.

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