[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/1] h264: remove skip of h264 parsing independent of skip_frame

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Joakim Plate <elupus <at> ecce.se> writes:

> This give a small performance hit since we do complete stream
> parsing. The actual slice decoding of frame's are still skipped.
> 
> With this change, decoder can be set to AVDISCARD_ALL and still
> calculate has_b_frame and similar fields correctly.

If this is so important, why not only skip the "continue" 
for AVDISCARD_ALL (which makes little sense anyway)? I 
suspect people setting NONREF really need that little 
performance win.

Carl Eugen