[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] pixdesc: remove PIX_FMT_FLAG flag from pixel formats which are *not* paletted

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 01:27:31PM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> The flag was required for an hack in libswscale. Since now libswscale
> distinguishes between formats which store palette in the image, and
> formats which use it internally in libswscale, the flag is no longer
> required.

treating 8 bit per pixel formats like paletted formats is not only
usefull in swscale. But also can be usefull in other filters, like
contrast/brightness/gamma filters. For them for example its just needed
to apply the change to the palette and then switch the pix format to
PAL8

of course that can be done  without the flag too but the flag 
might lead to slightly simpler code somewhere, not a major thing though

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