[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] libavcodec skip decoding options

[Loren Merritt]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Reimar [iso-8859-1] Döffinger wrote:

> Hi,
> the attached patch adds support for libavcodecs skip* options, esp.
> skiploopfilter can give a big speedup with h264 at little cost.
> I need a bit of help with the man page entry though, I'll give the text
> here, somebody else please put the formattings in (I don't know
> how to make sub-subsections, and no I don't want to learn :-) )
>
> under lavdopts:
>
> skip options
>  all these accept a value that specifies when this processing step
>  should be skipped:
>    none
>      never skip
>    default
>      skip when it is useless (e.g. 0 size packets in AVI)

What's the difference between these two? What processing could possibly be 
done by the codec to 0 size packets in AVI?

--Loren Merritt