[Libav-user] Maybe about an MVC decoder

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Joris VALETTE <joris.valette at ...> writes:

> >Because you did not send a patch yet.
> 
> Well I'd love to, but I'm a newbie with h.264 at the moment, 
> and I'm discovering the decoder implementation step by step.
> You didn't answer my question, why hasn't MVC been done yet ?

Please don't take it aggressively (either), but above is the 
answer. I suspect you don't know exactly how open-source works, 
an important factor (at least in the case of FFmpeg) is that 
people see a missing feature (or bug), they implement it and 
send a patch to ffmpeg-devel.

(It should of course be mentioned that in the case of MVC, 
there are some issues that probably make implementing it 
more difficult that let's say VP7, so it is probably a 
very bad idea to start working on FFmpeg with MVC...)

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> Is it because stereo player aren't mainstream as for today ?

MPlayer should support stereo streams (but you may need 
an extremely expensive Nvidia graphic card).

Carl Eugen