[x264-devel] Re: Status of x264 decoder

[Stephen Henry]

I'm currently working on the Decoder in my spare time. It's quite
laborious to debug given the fact that the code relies on common
functions shared between the encoder and decoder that have long since
diverged. I too see the benefit in having a unified H.264 codec being
able of carrying out encoding and decoding; no harm to the ffmpeg guys,
but there's a lot of stuff in the code that I simply don't care for. 

I can't say when I'll have it in a working condition; hopefully within a
couple of weeks if I can be bothered.

Stephen

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From: x264-devel-bounce at videolan.org
[mailto:x264-devel-bounce at videolan.org] On Behalf Of Tuukka Toivonen
Sent: 08 August 2005 14:26
To: x264-devel at videolan.org
Subject: [x264-devel] Re: Status of x264 decoder

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Roth Andreas wrote:

>I would like to use the x264 decoder, but I noticed that the x264 
>decoder has been marked as unusable in x264.h.

> What's the current status
>of the decoder?

Not usable.

> When will the decoder be usable?

When someone makes it so; the x264 developers appear not to be
interested even to the degree that it was discussed whether the whole
decoder should be removed. I am, actually, interested finishing the
decoder but currently too busy with other things.

>Are there any other (open source) h264 decoder which can decode h264 
>(from x264 encoder)?

Yes, libavcodec, which is used by ffmpeg and mplayer.
That is very good and capable of decoding almost anything.

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