[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] doc/developer: origin of tables should be documented.

[Nicolas George]

Kieran Kunhya (12020-07-31):
> > /* Geometric progression with ratio 42. */
> >
> > Or, if you used a one-liner in whatever language of your choice, just
> > copy-paste it into the comment:
> >
> > /* Zsh: for i in {0..11}; printf "%8x\\n" $[440*2**(22+i/12.)] */
> 
> This is completely unrealistic for reverse engineered tables such as VLCs
> which have no mathematical basis.

Duh. For reverse-engineered codecs, I expect a comment with at least the
word "reverse-engineered".

Something like this would be acceptable:

/* Reverse-engineered by encoding various files with the reference
   encoder. */

Reluctance to give this little information is baffling to me.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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