[FFmpeg-devel] DVCPRO-HD bounty offered

[The Wanderer]

Armando Di Cianno wrote:

> Roman,
> 
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Roman V. Shaposhnik <rvs at sun.com>
> wrote:
> 
>>> company that submits a patch against the current FFmpeg svn trunk
>>> that successfully decodes DVCPRO-HD.
>> 
>> That said, I believe it would be much more desirable for the
>> project in general to have a slightly different goal for the bounty
>> in mind: integration of the DVCPRO-HD codec functionality into the
>> trunk of the FFmpeg mainline.
> 
> That is actually what I meant by "current FFmpeg svn trunk" -- the
> actual FFmpeg mainline that everyone uses if they checkout FFmpeg
> from the FFmpeg project pages.  The experimental branch you have
> seems a bit out of date compared to mainline FFmpeg -- making it
> easier to integrate various patches, but harder to make a clean patch
> against mainline FFmpeg.

I think Roman meant not that he thought you were suggesting a patch
against something other than the FFmpeg "mainline", but that the goal
should be not "a patch submitted against FFmpeg SVN" but "a patch which
is accepted into FFmpeg SVN".

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