[FFmpeg-devel] Awakening of FFH264

[Måns Rullgård]

Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:57:04AM -0700, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
>> > 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.
>> 
>> If the encoder uses practically no features it's totally useless for
>> regression testing...
>
> It shouldnt be hard to use lots of features and just write random values ;)
> for regression tests that would be fine.

Then we are no longer talking about an encoder in the usual sense.
Besides, ensuring the maximally awkward values are used is _hard_.
The conformance tests already do that, so there's no need to duplicate
that work.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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