[FFmpeg-devel] Unified CPU Endianness for framecrcenc

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 03:21:19PM -0800, Mike Melanson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using libavformat/framecrcenc.c for automated testing on the FATE
> Server ( http://fate.multimedia.cx ). For those who don't know, '-f
> framecrc' is a neat tool that "muxes" a file by simply running the Adler
> CRC algorithm over incoming packets and printing some frame stats to the
> stdout. It's great for validating bit accuracy for file/codec types that
> are expected to be bit exact.
> 
> I am having trouble with certain formats, however. For example, if the
> data is decoded as 15- or 16-bit RGB/BGR, the data will be stored in CPU
> endianness. Would it be acceptable to have a special "#ifdef BIG_ENDIAN"
> case in the muxer that swaps bytes before running the CRC? Or is there a
> better solution to the problem? I'm asking before I do the coding work.

convert to rgb24 or bgr24 maybe ...

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