[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] libmpcodecs support

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:55:44AM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
> On 1/15/11 6:29 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 04:47:56PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
>>> On 1/15/11 12:25 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 03:17:24AM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
>>>>> On 1/14/11 3:19 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>>> i can just merge the changes in, but IMHO if it takes you more than a few days
>>>>>> to run indent or sed over the code and get it approved then waiting longer has
>>>>>> zero sense. Because indent takes seconds, and getting it approved either will
>>>>>> happen or will not happen. And its twice as much code than there is in swcale so
>>>>>> doing anything by hand is (from experience of swscale) something taking years
>>>>>> and i think we all agree that blocking 80% of functionality of libavfilter
>>>>>> for years is not worth the style changes to code that is semantically not even
>>>>>> part of ffmpeg.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd rather have clean and maintainable code in ffmpeg. I could accept
>>>>> this kind of devils deal only if it gets first a full regression test so
>>>>> trying to clean it up later would be half of the work.
>>>>
>>>> dont forget the full regression test for swscale as condition to your
>>>> cleanup there
>>>
>>> I'm assuming the one currently present covers everything, point me to
>>> what's missing if I'm wrong, I didn't check while running it so far ^^;
>>
>> missing ->  fate
>
> Ah, it might be tricky I'll add to the todo =)
>
>> but me writing 50+ regression tests for filters, some of which need
>> external image files, some need interlaced or telecined material some need
>> keypresses once pasing that is implemenzted ...
>
> I wasn't aware you wanted to implement/import even those that need  
> external input. I thought that you already had something that you used  
> to check the interesting filters were ok with the wrapper.

theres a logo removial filter that loads a picture from the disk,
and the screenshot filter that needs keypresses pushed as control codes
through the chain and various telecine filters that need telecined material

I dont know if any of these filters fully works currently but they compile and
dont crash and i dont expect it to be much work to get them working.


>
>>     is really hard and a shitload of work which is why iam a little upset
>>     about your requesting me to do that, its close to saying "never commit this"
>>
>> swscale in fate is fun too, iam not sure its all binary identical accross
>> platforms, iam not sure what should be tested, there are too many cases to
>> test all ...
>> so a subset has to be selected that is quick to test but covers as much as
>> possible
>
> I see I'll look into it soon, once I'm home I'll make the  
> swscale-cleanup branch public.

thats a good idea

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