[vlc-devel] [PATCH] vpx: treat unsupported bitstream error as fatal

[Vittorio Giovara]

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Tristan Matthews <tmatth at videolan.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
>> What about at configure time?
>
> I think you can only tell if the encoder is configured for high bit
> depth, not the decoder. So if you checked the encoder capabilities
> (assuming that the encoder was even built), you could deduce that the
> decoder could decode high bit depth, but otherwise there's no way of
> knowing until you start decoding.
>
> Best,
> Tristan
>
>>
>> On Mon, 26 Dec 2016, at 17:04, Tristan Matthews wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > Why does it not fail in Open() then?
>>>
>>> AFAIK there's no way of checking if your decoder was built with high
>>> bitdepth support, maybe there's a way of probing in Open() that
>>> escapes me.

This matches my findings and it is pretty sad.
-- 
Vittorio