[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Basic H.264 encoder

Måns Rullgård mru
Thu Apr 13 00:02:58 CEST 2006


Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx> writes:

> M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Why would it need another code?  If it's H.264 compatible, though not
>> complete, any existing H.264 code will do.
>
> 	FFmpeg also outputs ISO-compliant MPEG-4 data. But the powers
> 	that be still decided to put the FourCC 'FMP4' into service to
> 	distinguish ISO MPEG-4 data generated by FFmpeg. Maybe that
> 	was more because of fractures among MPEG-4 implementations.

IIRC it was to distinguish it from other, buggy implementations.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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