[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/4] lavc: add standalone cached bitstream reader

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting Andreas Rheinhardt (2022-06-24 14:30:58)
> Anton Khirnov:
> > From: Alexandra Hájková <alexandra.khirnova at gmail.com>
> > 
> > The cached bitstream reader was originally written by Alexandra Hájková
> > for Libav, with significant input from Kostya Shishkov and Luca Barbato.
> > It was then committed to FFmpeg in ca079b09549, by merging it with the
> > implementation of the current bitstream reader.
> > 
> > This merge makes the code of get_bits.h significantly harder to read,
> > since it now contains two different bitstream readers interleaved with
> >  #ifdefs. Additionally, the code was committed without proper authorship
> > attribution.
> > 
> > This commit re-adds the cached bitstream reader as a standalone header,
> > as it was originally developed. It will be made useful in following
> > commits.
> > 
> > Integration by Anton Khirnov.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Anton Khirnov <anton at khirnov.net>
> > ---
> 
> One thing I wanted to tell in all my previous mails, but forgot: The
> bitstream prefix is way too long. Why not use just e.g. bits? The only
> function whose name starts with "bits_" is bits_to_store in
> lavc/sonic.c, so clashes are not an issue.

Fine with me.

-- 
Anton Khirnov