[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavf/isom: Recognize fourcc HEVC

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

2018-05-03 22:26 GMT+02:00, James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com>:
> On 5/2/2018 6:12 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>> 2018-05-02 22:50 GMT+02:00, Hendrik Leppkes <h.leppkes at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> If anything at all, this should most definitely not go into
>>> movvideo tags. This is about AVI files, so if it should go
>>> anywhere, it should be in ff_codec_bmp_tags. But of
>>> course this would have the side-effect that it actually
>>> allows encoding such files then, which would absolutely
>>> not be OK.
>>
>> What do you suggest?
>
> Create a new table with all non standard codecids from
> ff_codec_bmp_tags and use it exclusively in avidec

Who is going to decide which are standard codecids?

Your suggestion is not really helpful and would impose
quite a burden for users using avi as a standard
container: What gain would there be?

Carl Eugen