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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> | 2016-06-28 14:17:43 +0300 |
| commit | 82b7525173f20702a8cbc26ebedbf4b69b8fecec (patch) | |
| tree | 125eb3d187db9c5a9da834e7aa8ee1696461fb3b /doc | |
| parent | 785c25443b56adb6dbbb78d68cccbd9bd4a42e05 (diff) | |
Add an OpenH264 decoder wrapper
While it is less featureful (and slower) than the built-in H264
decoder, one could potentially want to use it to take advantage
of the cisco patent license offer.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -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 0590c2360f..ea56beff92 100644 --- a/doc/general.texi +++ b/doc/general.texi @@ -97,12 +97,19 @@ enable it. @section OpenH264 -Libav can make use of the OpenH264 library for H.264 encoding. +Libav 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 Libav can make use of the x264 library for H.264 encoding. |