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authorMike Melanson <mike@multimedia.cx>2003-10-03 05:50:06 +0000
committerMike Melanson <mike@multimedia.cx>2003-10-03 05:50:06 +0000
commit5a00941b0690968b7309854d188eb63f3a9c6fa2 (patch)
treea6bdf6c7e3f6c4b5ea3da8bf71247fd6483c5ac4 /libavcodec/idcinvideo.c
parent4120a53a868cc99e66121c625981050deed50443 (diff)
instructions for using the decoder
Originally committed as revision 2340 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
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@@ -24,7 +24,12 @@
* For more information about the Id CIN format, visit:
* http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~timf/
*
- * This video decoder outputs PAL8 colorspace data.
+ * This video decoder outputs PAL8 colorspace data. Interacting with this
+ * decoder is a little involved. During initialization, the demuxer must
+ * transmit the 65536-byte Huffman table(s) to the decoder via extradata.
+ * Then, whenever a palette change is encountered while demuxing the file,
+ * the demuxer must use the same extradata space to transmit an
+ * AVPaletteControl structure.
*
* Id CIN video is purely Huffman-coded, intraframe-only codec. It achieves
* a little more compression by exploiting the fact that adjacent pixels