[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] The Big Bump checklist

[Stefan Gehrer]

On 03/07/2011 06:41 PM, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> "Ronald S. Bultje"<rsbultje at gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Anton Khirnov<anton at khirnov.net>  wrote:
>>> Two more things: AVPalette control and AVCodecContext.request_channells
>>> have been deprecated since stone age, yet are still used in some places.
>>> Any volunteers for fixing those?
>>
>> I don't think we have any decided-upon replacement for AVPalette, do we?
>
> I thought there was one since at least 3 or 4 years.
>

As far as I understand the replacement for AVPalette control is to send
the palette along with the image data in data[1] as described in
pixfmt.h:

  * When the pixel format is palettized RGB (PIX_FMT_PAL8), the palettized
  * image data is stored in AVFrame.data[0]. The palette is transported in
  * AVFrame.data[1], is 1024 bytes long (256 4-byte entries) and is
  * formatted the same as in PIX_FMT_RGB32 described above (i.e., it is
  * also endian-specific). Note also that the individual RGB palette
  * components stored in AVFrame.data[1] should be in the range 0..255.
  * This is important as many custom PAL8 video codecs that were designed
  * to run on the IBM VGA graphics adapter use 6-bit palette components.
  *
  * For all the 8bit per pixel formats, an RGB32 palette is in data[1] like
  * for pal8. This palette is filled in automatically by the function
  * allocating the picture.


Stefan