[vlc-devel] Re: [PATCH] USF subtitles enhancements

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2007, Bernie Purcell wrote :
>> I also thought about just removing the bit in ffmpeg module that says it
>> can handle BMP, as that is what is causing the problem (at least in my
>> tests with these particular BMPs). I thought, however, that there may
>> have been other types it had problems with, too, and that that wouldn't
>> have fixed it for them.
>> Is anyone in a position to make a call over whether giving sdl_image a
>> higher score than ffmpeg would cause problems to any other particular
>> module?
> 
> If ffmpeg bmp is that poor, we can remove it from VLC's ffmpeg.c,
> 
> however, I would prefer putting the sdl_image's score higher than
> ffmpeg, since the only FourCC supported in sdl_image are:
>     { VLC_FOURCC('t','g','a',' '), "TGA" },
>     { VLC_FOURCC('b','m','p',' '), "BMP" },
>     { VLC_FOURCC('p','n','m',' '), "PNM" },
>     { VLC_FOURCC('x','p','m',' '), "XPM" },
>     { VLC_FOURCC('x','c','f',' '), "XCF" },
>     { VLC_FOURCC('p','c','x',' '), "PCX" },
>     { VLC_FOURCC('g','i','f',' '), "GIF" },
>     { VLC_FOURCC('j','p','e','g'), "JPG" },
>     { VLC_FOURCC('t','i','f','f'), "TIF" },
>     { VLC_FOURCC('l','b','m',' '), "LBM" },
> 
> in which they are probably in a higher quality than ffmpeg. (though
> ffmpeg should be faster).
> 
> Anyone knows if this is a good/bad idea ?

Not sure that is a good idea.

Gtz,
Jean-Paul Saman.

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