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| author | Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st> | 2016-06-24 00:58:17 +0300 |
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| committer | Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st> | 2016-07-27 10:19:40 +0300 |
| commit | c5d326f551b0312ff581bf1df35b21d956e01523 (patch) | |
| tree | 4736c5943b53002f6b17687a4a562c3e881563b3 /doc | |
| parent | 54a0a52be100d36291084f92b7d6aee1a4960acb (diff) | |
Add an OpenH264 decoder wrapper
This is cherrypicked from libav, from commits
82b7525173f20702a8cbc26ebedbf4b69b8fecec and
d0b1e6049b06eeeeca146ece4d2f199c5dba1565.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/general.texi | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/general.texi b/doc/general.texi index 7823dc13cf..6b5975c6d4 100644 --- a/doc/general.texi +++ b/doc/general.texi @@ -103,12 +103,19 @@ enable it. @section OpenH264 -FFmpeg can make use of the OpenH264 library for H.264 encoding. +FFmpeg can make use of the OpenH264 library for H.264 encoding and decoding. Go to @url{http://www.openh264.org/} and follow the instructions for installing the library. Then pass @code{--enable-libopenh264} to configure to enable it. +For decoding, this library is much more limited than the built-in decoder +in libavcodec; currently, this library lacks support for decoding B-frames +and some other main/high profile features. (It currently only supports +constrained baseline profile and CABAC.) Using it is mostly useful for +testing and for taking advantage of Cisco's patent portfolio license +(@url{http://www.openh264.org/BINARY_LICENSE.txt}). + @section x264 FFmpeg can make use of the x264 library for H.264 encoding. |