[x264-devel] Re: x264 decoder

[Måns Rullgård]

Johannes Ballé said:
> Hello.
>
> I'm currently working on a project about improved intra prediction for AVC.
> I've based the implementation on the x264 code base, and the first results
> are not bad. Thanks to everyone who made this possible! (I will gladly
> contribute any improvements back to the project.)
>
> To prove that the measurements are correct, I'm still in need for a standalone
> decoder that I can modify along with the coder.
>
> I don't really need the best CPU performance (yet) as I'm optimizing for RD
> performance. I would need a certain amount of flexibility because a lot of
> things in the code, if not all, are not final yet. Also it would be very
> convenient if the encoder/decoder could share some of the code. I guess the
> best choice would be the decoder in the x264 code base. However, it seems a
> standalone version would still have to be written (maybe by just implementing
> a main program). Is there anything the coder implements that the decoder
> doesn't?
>
> It seems the ffmpeg code base poses an alternative. Which software would you
> recommend looking into?

x264 doesn't have a working decoder.  Use the one in ffmpeg.

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