[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] avcodec/qtrle: Do not output duplicated frames on insufficient input

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 11:49 AM, Michael Niedermayer
<michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 12:53:46AM +0200, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>> 2018-05-16 0:29 GMT+02:00, Hendrik Leppkes <h.leppkes at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > It makes no real difference if its less efficient or whatever -
>> > if a codec specification asks for this behavior, then our
>> > decoders should act accordingly.
>>
>> I wonder where this suddenly comes from?
>> (I was away from my mail client when a similar argument
>> was used a few weeks ago and I forgot later.)
>> Luckily, many of our codecs do smarter things
>> than the specifications asks for...
>>
>> Do we have a specification for qtrle?
>
> Iam only aware of the one "we", that is more correctly mike melanson
> wrote: https://multimedia.cx/qtrle.txt
>
> I think this invalidates the argument, so if i hear no objections then
> ill apply this patch in a few days
>

How does that invalidate the argument that you take a compressed CRF
stream and suddenly decide to make VFR out of it?
Because it does not.

- Hendrik