[FFmpeg-devel] libavcodec : add psd image file decoder

[Paul B Mahol]

On 7/9/16, Rostislav Pehlivanov <atomnuker at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 July 2016 at 16:29, Martin Vignali <martin.vignali at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In attach patch to add decoding of .psd file (Photoshop file).
>>
>> PSD file can contain merge layers data at the end of the file (Image Data
>> Section)
>>
>> This patch add support for this kind of files, using uncompress data Image
>> Data Section
>>
>> Support Gray/A, and RGB/A with 8b or 16 bits by channel.
>>
>>
>> Samples can be found here :
>>
>> https://we.tl/GK6yQhUV8j
>>
>>
>> Comments welcome
>>
>> Martin
>>
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> This has the potential to turn into the shittiest thing in libavcodec. PSD
> is a notoriously horrible format and I believe code needed to read and
> render it belongs outside of libavcodec. Not to mention that close to 90%
> of the features it has are unsupported by the framework, be it vectors, the
> colorspaces, layers, etc. The decoder's also pretty raw and only supports
> uncompressed images, with every other mode currently unsupported, giving
> the deceptive idea it's a simple decoder for a simple format. A decoder
> which can open a very small part of all psd files floating around isn't a
> very useful one.

Why? Neither exr decoder was good, at beginning it supported only raw.

> There is simply no simple way to expose all the quirks of the format in a
> nice way to libavcodec, given that this decoder can be potentially as
> complex and bad as photoshop. Please make this a separate library or a
> program, you don't even need any framework features since it's a simple
> bytestream.
>
> In case you need the testament of someone who's done the work already take
> a read at this:
> https://github.com/gco/xee/blob/master/XeePhotoshopLoader.m#L108-L136
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