[FFmpeg-devel] Google Summer of Code participation

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 08:16:45PM +0200, Thilo Borgmann wrote:
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>
> Michael Niedermayer schrieb:
>> as ronald said, AVPacket can be moved to avcodec.h
>>
>>
>>   
> Done.
>> I think simply updating all AVCodecs should do.
>> It would break applications that have their own private AVCodecs but these
>> should be few and they are evil anyway because where they not they would
>> have submitted their AVCodec to us.
>> (i guess someone will in 5min explain a non evil reason why one would have
>> ones own AVCodec ...)
>>
>> and to be honest i prefer bumping the major version than having anyone
>> spend a lot of time comming up with some complex woraround. That is if
>> theres no easy way to avoid it and simply changing AVCodec doesnt work
>> breaks more than a obscure application.
>>
>>   
> I've altered the AVCodec struct to contain a decode function pointer 
> parameterized by a pointer to an AVPacket struct.
>
> I've already integrated the necessary update to the audio/video decoder 
> related to the CorePNG testfile (pngdec.c & pcm.c). This comes as a new 
> function avcodec_decode_frame2() which takes an AVPacket. It is a simple 
> wrapper calling the original accodec_decode_frame() by now. The new 
> function is then specified in the AVCodec struct.
> For the pcm.c there were some prefix addons for the functions, so it seems 
> not to be as generic as I thought it would be. Also, the content of the 
> AVCodec struct was #define'd.
>
> Fortunately, I can compile without touching the other codecs (of course, a 
> call to them will cause a segmentation fault). So, this update already 
> works for the CorePNG testfile.
>
> The question is, if this approach is ok and, if so, if someone feels 
> appointed to integrate the wrapper function to the other codecs. I can do 
> but as time is running out for my qualification task I would like to start 
> off with the real decoding task.

if updating all codecs is too much work, adding a new function ptr to AVCodec
and simply checking which is != NULL should allow adding this without updating
all codecs
(sorry it was to late yesterday for my brain to work and see this as obvious
 solution)

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