[FFmpeg-devel] maintainer duties (was: Re: [PATCH] fix speex sample)

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 03:51:37PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 03:36:39PM +0200, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > Also I think it would already be quite simple to fix if we just allowed
> > packets to contain only palette (without any PKT_FLAG_PALETTE), since
> > allocating a buffer and merging the palette stuff together with a video
> > buffer is just a pain to implement. The problem though is that no
> > keyframes at all would exist then.
> 
> i think palette belongs in the packet with a frame not in a seperate packet
> a palette is like a quantization tables in mpeg, we should treat it like
> one

I don't really disagree, it's just that each time I look at it and the
boring and annoying buffer management stuff you'd need my motivation
drops almost immediately to 0.
If you knew what exactly is support by a format it would be much nicer,
too. E.g. for ipmovie.c it is possible, currently supported and can make
sense to have maybe 16 separate "palette" packets per frame.
It might also be possible that none of the files ever have more than one per
packet though.