[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Fast half-float to float conversion

[Jimmy Christensen]

Hi,

I'm almost done with my OpenEXR decoder, but since it can work in a 
half-float format I wanted a fast half-float to float conversion. I 
found one in the FOX toolkit which uses a table lookup. I didn't want 
the table lookup in the OpenEXR decoder only, since a few other formats 
can use half-floats aswell. So instead I submit the half-float to float 
first as a libavutil header.

The code is derivative work from the FOX toolkit, but I have already 
asked permission to include it in the ffmpeg project, granted that I 
stated origin and a link to the paper describing the table lookup. The 
paper can be seen here :

http://www.fox-toolkit.org/ftp/fasthalffloatconversion.pdf

I have tested the code with the before mentioned OpenEXR decoder and it 
works as expected with half floats.

-- 
Best Regards
Jimmy Christensen
Developer
Ghost A/S
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