[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] MJPEG patch of APP0/COM skip

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Sunday 18 July 2004 03:45, attila wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:13:15PM +1100, John Witford wrote:
> > Not all JPEG segments necessarily escape marker values.
> > Therefore it is wrong to just ignore an unwanted marker
> > and depend on a generic marker search to skip over the
> > unwanted segment contents.
> >
> > This is particularly important for the APP0 segment
> > because it can include a wide variety of data.
> > For example, an APP0 "AVI1" segment might contain
> > the length of the image (EOI-SOS) and therefore might
> > contain an unescaped marker byte.
> >
> > The following patch for MJPEG decoding (libavcodec/mjpeg.c)
> > forces the use of the segment length when skipping for
> > certain marker types.
>
> What happend to this patch ?
rejected (cosmetics, bloat, slowdown) & waiting for patch submitter to upload 
sample mjpeg which needs this to implement a different fix if needed ...

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Michael
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