[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] codec_desc: mark CFHD as intra-only

[Kieran Kunhya]

>
> It still seems to me that this is a solution in search of a problem. If
> I understand you correctly, the case you have in mind is a codec where
> there is an internal implementation that only supports intra frames
> and an external implementation that also supports inter frames.
> But that seems incredibly contrived to me. For one thing, I don't know
> of any actual situations like this, now or in the past. For another, why
> pick out specifically the ability to decode intra vs inter frames?
> There is a huge number of codec features that may be potentially
> unsupported by various implementations (see e.g. AAC) and there's no
> sane way we can have capability flags for them all.
>

Hi,

I have no opinion on the issue at hand but this is currently the case with
Cineform.
The internal decoder supports the intra features but the open sourced one
from them supports intra/inter features.

Kieran