[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] set flags and stuff required for XvMC instead of just checking them

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:33:58PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:57:01PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:18:35PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 09:20:42PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > > > I do not know what could be the purpose of checking these things except
> > > > creating useless code or general sadism.
> > > > The CODEC_FLAG_EMU_EDGE is from MPlayer where it comes with the great
> > > > comment "//do i need that??!!"
> > > > I am not willing to keep that crap around in MPlayer, so I am moving it
> > > > here...
> > > 
> > > you cant, 
> > > 
> > >    /**
> > >      * CODEC_FLAG_*.
> > >      * - encoding: Set by user.
> > >      * - decoding: Set by user.
> > >      */
> > >     int flags;
> > > 
> > > the dox say "set by user" lavc is not the user
> > 
> > Well, that can be taken care of.
> 
> i do not like this
> the EMU flag is supposed to be set by the user app depending on the 
> buffer / VO abilities and the users preferrance, its not even clear
> what meaning this flag has for HW decoders

Note that I removed the EMU flag, I tested with MC+IDCT and just MC
mode, and it seems to work fine without.
The thread_count thing is something that IMHO is a good thing to allow
lavc to set in general, and the slice_flags... Well, I am not sure about
the point of them...