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

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 10:53:35PM +0100, Mats Peterson wrote:
> On 01/31/2016 10:49 PM, Mats Peterson wrote:
> >>this decission should be made by other developers, who where not
> >>involved in this disagreement, that should result in a outcome that
> >>represents the preferrances of the community better.
> >>
> >
> >wm4 is already on my side, as far as I understand.
> >
> 
> Just because we have monow and monob pixel formats, it doesn't mean
> they should be used wherever 1 bpp data is involved. And once again,
> the semantics according to Microsoft are that 1 bpp AVI is NEVER
> monochrome, it is ALWAYS palettized, regardless of the number of
> colors, or whether they are black & white or not. And implementing
> "mono switches" for 1 bpp depth for every file format involves
> writing a lot of superfluous code just for this, and in the case of
> qtrle, creating a whole new loop for the 1 bpp case. Overkill.

i did not suggest that.
my suggestion is just about the raw video decoder, that is if a
AVPacket contains monochrome 1bpp black/white data without a palette
that this is passed through and not converted to pal8

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