Talk:Small FFmpeg Tasks

Patch Rules

should we link or quote some ffmpeg patch rules? e.g. tabs are forbidden, use diff -u or svn diff or (insert git command). it seems like this is a common mistake for SoC students. -- Compn 10:53, 29 March 2008 (EDT)

Well the mailing list page has a link to the MPlayer patch guidelines, but it's missing a few things such as:

• No trailing whitespace
• Must not break the regression tests
• If it does change the regression tests, you must update regression.ref
• Must check bounds on all input and must not allow overflow or other out-of-bounds condition
• Use meaningful variable names
• Globals/externs should have ff_ prefix to avoid naming conflicts
• Doxygen comments
• No breaking C standards (eg using underscore prefixes)
• Keep { } tidy
• No code duplication
• Workarounds for compiler bugs (eg MSVC) must not break other platforms

Anything else? -- Mkhodor 13:18, 31 March 2008 (EDT)

er, the whole rule list is availible here http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/general.html#SEC20 , feel free to add it-- Compn 14:09, 31 March 2008 (EDT)

Delphine CIN?

But we already have it in FFmpeg - look at libavcodec/dsicinav.c and libavformat/dsicin.c --Kostya 01:43, 31 March 2008 (EDT)

Awesome. See, that's what this collaborative Wiki model is good for-- keeping me honest. :-) I'll get a test in FATE soon. --Multimedia Mike 02:05, 31 March 2008 (EDT)

VC1 timestamps in m2ts

was: Add support for newer codecs such as Dirac and VC1 to FFmpeg's Matroska muxer.

Dirac should mux perfectly as of r16261. What about muxing VC1 doesn't work? A quick -vcodec copy from wmv didn't throw any errors. -Yuvi 05:31, 3 January 2009 (EST)

Yes, WMV3 works fine. There was a report that muxing VC1 from m2ts didn't work. If this does work then feel free to remove the task. Also the demuxer doesn't recognize V_VC1. -Mkhodor 22:58, 4 January 2009 (EST)

From m2ts, ffmpeg gives "error, pts < dts" which means that the timestamps coming out of the m2ts demuxer are invalid. I dunno if it would be easier to fix the demuxer or just extend the parser to fix/fill them in. For V_VC1, is that actually used by a muxer now? According to http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2007-August/034825.html it was a brief mistake that isn't supposed to be used. -Yuvi 02:50, 5 January 2009 (EST)

I don't know of any other muxers that use it, so I made a note on the Matroska page that it is deprecated. -Mkhodor 10:47, 13 January 2009 (EST)

Removing Claimed tags

Should the claimed tags be removed from the page? Most of them (if not all of them) are quite old, and many mention people who are not involved with the project anymore. If so, I'll remove them within a few days. Dashcloud