[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] mov: write colr by default

[Robert Krüger]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>
wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 06:17:22PM +0100, Robert Krüger wrote:
>
> > This is based on an earlier patch by Derek
>
> please mention this in the commit message
>

OK, I will change that


>
>
> > that never went in because it
> > was argumented earlier that api breakage is not acceptable. However, that
> > was more or less relaxed after Michael noted that the replaced flag had
> > never been part of a release and since a number of people seem to agree,
> > this is the better default, I am submitting this patch now, to have it in
> > before the upcoming release.
> >
>
> > Let me know if that will be accepted and I will modify the respective
> fate
> > tests as well.
>
> have you tested the generated mov and mp4 files with some common
> software packages ?
>
> checking random files on my disk it seems more than half the mov
> files contain a colr atom but i found just a single mp4 with a colr
> atom, so especially testing the compatibility of the mp4 files would
> be optimal before this is changed
>
>
OK, I will do some tests with VLC, Quicktime, Final Cut, Final Cut X,
Premiere and After Effects and maybe something else I find.

Robert