[Open-graphics] decoding video in real-time

Loren Merritt lorenm at u.washington.edu
Mon Mar 19 00:43:10 EDT 2007


On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:31:57 -0400 Nicholas S-A wrote:
>
>> What levels of H.264 should we support to make an implementation
>> worthwhile?
>> Probably either High or Main.
>
> Well, if we want to go that way, we could start
> from MPEG4, which is a subset of h.264 and then slowly
> add features until we see how much fits in.

MPEG4 part2 is not a subset of H.264. libavcodec's MPEG4 decoder shares 
no code with its H.264 decoder. Even basic functions like DCT and 
motion compensation are different.

--Loren Merritt


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