[vlc-devel] [PATCH] picture: fix missing video_format_t attributes from the picture

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le perjantaina 28. syyskuuta 2018, 15.33.34 EEST Filip Roséen a écrit :
> Hi Remi,
> 
> On 2018-09-28 15:23, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> > Le vendredi 28 septembre 2018, 15:04:33 EEST Filip Roséen a écrit :
> > > LGTM, as long as we are sure that we will not (once again) step into
> > > life-time issues related to the ownership of
> > > `video_format_t.p_palette` (but as it worked before, well.. it at
> > > least wouldn't get worse than what we had previously).
> > 
> > I have said it before and I will say it again: we should just kill
> > p_palette so that video format is actually POD like so much code assumes.
> > The troubles are not worth the benefits. It is just daft to treat
> > paletized formats as decoded formats nowadays.
> 
> Mhm, I definitely agree!
> 
> I have never been a fan of `p_palette`, and given the amount of
> trouble we have had with lifetime problems due to changes not taking
> the ownership into account. I would happily see it being
> *plain-old-data*, and it would save us so much time when we have some
> obscure patch because of some developer mismatching *copy-by-value* vs
> `video_format_Clean`/`video_format_Init`/etc.

No, I don't mean to make the palette an array to be copied by value.

I mean to remove the palette from the video format, where it does not belong. 
Nobody uses palettized video outputs since two decades or so - and none of the 
VLC video display plugins support any.

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