[x264-devel] Re: x264 decoder

[Loren Merritt]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Loren Merritt <lorenm at u.washington.edu> writes:
>> On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Johannes Ballé wrote:
>>
>>>> x264 doesn't have a working decoder.  Use the one in ffmpeg.
>>>
>>> What part of it isn't working? Maybe I'll be fine without it. Thanks
>>
>> The whole thing. It was in some state of partial completion 2.5 years
>> ago, and hasn't been touched since. Meanwhile the rest of the code has
>> been reorganized, and the "common" functions no longer do what the
>> decoder used them for.
>
> Why don't we remove the decoder entirely?

At various times, people have said they were trying to update it, but no 
one ever published such code. I have no objections to removing it.

--Loren Merritt