[FFmpeg-devel] libavcodec : add psd image file decoder

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On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 07:36:44 +0000
Rostislav Pehlivanov <atomnuker at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 20 November 2016 at 17:05, Kieran Kunhya <kierank at obe.tv> wrote:
> 
> > I object to this patch for the reasons Rostislav outlined..
> >
> > Kieran
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> I actually don't mind the decoder anymore. The code looks simple and neat,
> and it would be nice to be able to view the few random psd files I have and
> which the decoder can open. No full decoding support is planned, which
> would require inhuman effort to complete even like 20% of anyway, so I
> doubt the decoder will grow into a huge mess. I mean viewing psd files is a
> big pain anyway, so eh, if the decoder can open a few of them and save
> people the effort of having gimp (which also doesn't support some psd
> features) without being a security disaster it's okay. When you think about
> it png is also a mess, its been extended to hell with nonstandard chunks,
> but we even have pretty good encoding support for the base of it. Not sure
> what the fuss is here, because there's no public standard?

Can we get support for .doc and .html too? I think these would be great
features.