[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavc/rawdec: Only use AV_PIX_FMT_PAL8 for 1 bpp video

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On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 13:27:22 +0100
Mats Peterson <matsp888-at-yahoo.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:

> I don't really appreciate that you're doing things behind my back, 
> Michael. There's nothing mentioned on the ffmpeg-devel mailing list 
> about your "monowhite switching patch". Furthermore, to me it's highly 
> unncecessary to use monowhite whatsoever. The space savings are quite 
> irrelevant nowadays, and the logic to detect whether a file is black & 
> white only creates more noise in the code. Here's a patch that restores 
> the old behaviour of only using pal8 for 1 bpp video, and removes 
> superfluous monowhite stuff.

Less complexity for such a corner case sounds indeed better.