[x264-devel] Bug: horizontal stripes on PPC with Altivec since snapshot 20081125

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Josef Drexler <joe-x264 at jdrexler.com> wrote:
> Since the version in snapshot x264-snapshot-20081125-2245.tar.bz2,
> x264 encodes show semi-random, clearly visible horizontal stripes of
> what looks like excessive color saturation, particularly in dark
> areas surrounded by light areas. Versions up to and including x264-
> snapshot-20081124-2245.tar.bz2 do not exhibit this problem.

Sounds like http://git.videolan.org/?p=x264.git;a=commit;h=4bf4109aee5b602f8a124b434e18f93ef539bbe6
broke some things he wasn't intending...

Well, good thing I don't maintain Altivec, so I can just yell at the
people who do.

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