[FFmpeg-soc] swscale ideas

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 02:15:51PM +0900, Luca Barbato wrote:
> Keiji Costantini wrote:
> > This is my plan:
> > 
> > 1)Make a C-only version of sws_scale, usable asap. No mmx, altivec, asm 
> > code here.
> > 2)Reinsert optimized code in a non-intrusive way, to gain speed. It 
> > would be possible for non-bitexact code to be disabled.
> > 
> 
> Pros:
> 
> - A clean start

> - getting this lgpl shouldn't take ages

It will take at least as long as rewriting the yuv table generator.
Which is what holds LGPL up.


> - all the hacks will be removed in a single sweep

Together with all the features they provided.


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of things you dont want and which you would get tomorrow for free anyway
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