[FFmpeg-devel] Awakening of FFH264

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 05:35:17PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 01:59:46PM +0200, Kvikant, Christian wrote:
> >> M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >>> Sorry, but what is the point of this?  There is already a fantastic,
> >>> open source H.264 encoder in x264.
> >> I agree totally. FFH264 is not up to par nether regarding quality nor size. 
> >> The only reason for this exercise was licensing. If the feeling is that 
> >> FFH264 will never become part of FFmpeg, then we will keep it as a separate 
> >> patch.
> >
> > a simple and small encoder could be usefull for regression testing.
> 
> Having a _crappy_ encoder in FFmpeg is detrimental to users and to our
> reputation.  I regularly hear complaints about the terrible quality of
> the AAC and Vorbis "encoders" in FFmpeg. As most of them never make it
> to this list, you're probably unaware of them.

having a encoder for regression tests and making this encoder available
to users by default are 2 seperate things


> 
> For regression testing the H264 decoder, we have the official
> conformance tests, which exercise every last bit of the decoder,
> something a simple encoder would never manage to do.

with that argument we should drop many tests from "make test"
i suspect though this would increase the number of commits that break the
affected codecs.

anyway the point is moot, the patch here is not fit for anything currently

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