[FFmpeg-devel] Question about palette size in packets

[Mats Peterson]

On 02/27/2016 11:51 AM, Mats Peterson wrote:
> On 02/27/2016 11:44 AM, Mats Peterson wrote:
>> Michael, I am currently "assuming" that the size of the palette in a
>> packet, if included at the end of the video data, will be 1 <<
>> bits_per_coded_sample. You're saying that the size of the packet isn't
>> fixed to 1024 bytes, but currently it seems to be 1024 (256 * 4) bytes
>> exclusively. Will this possibly change in the future? If so, is the "1
>> << bits per sample" for the palette size that is already assumed decent
>> enough to use as a future "standard"?
>>
>> Mats
>>
>
> Instead of having to subtract the video data from the packet size every
> time, which I'm currently *not* doing, but which of course would be more
> fool-proof.
>

This is mostly related to the muxer side, when calculating the palette 
size after returning from ff_reshuffle_raw_rgb(), by the way.

Mats

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