[vlc-devel] RE : [PATCH] -- still image demux

[Antoine Cellerier]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2009, brezhoneg1 wrote:
> TODO: maybe remove support of bmp and gif by avcodec or change
> priorities which decoder is chosen? 

Removing bmp and gif support from avcodec sounds fine to me if we're
sure that it indeed can't decode them properly. (is it possible to use
./ffmpeg to decode images and test that way?)
 
> The only difference I see is that the image is decoded only once in the
> latter case, whereas it is decoded again and again with the new demuxer.
> I didn't quite figure out all the implications regarding the pts
> computation. Maybe somebody who masters the pcr issues could be of great
> help to solve these warnings.

Can't we cache the decoded image?

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Antoine Cellerier
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