[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] libvpx: alt reference frame / lag

Jason Garrett-Glaser darkshikari
Mon Jul 5 22:25:57 CEST 2010


On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Vladimir Pantelic <vladoman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> John Koleszar wrote:
>
>> As I've said n-times, I'm not opposed to defining a packed frame
>> format, or supporting it in libvpx. I'm saying that I see no way to
>> use such a format in a WebM file in a backwards compatible way. If we
>> define a packed frame format, and YouTube remuxes all of its WebM
>> content overnight, or even just enables it for new content, the end
>> result would be that everyone playing WebM today would be unable to do
>> so tomorrow. This is unreasonable. Unpacked frames *is* what works
>> with existing players.
>
> So, like the bitstream format, the WebM ARF handling is frozen from day
> one and not subject to change, I wonder why we have this discussion
> at all..

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