On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 10:54:42AM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Kostya <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Situation so far:
> > 0) we have codecs that operate in paletted colourspace and palette changes 
> > may
> > be signalled outside codec data (like AVI which has special "palette change"
> > chunks)
> > 1) we had AVPaletteControl which was broken if application didn't use
> > "demux-decode-demux-decode" approach
> > 2) certain somebody decided that in AVI case it should be handled by 
> > appending
> > 1024 bytes with changed palette to demuxed packet and codecs should check if
> > they have some undecoded data left (commit ID b7c40744). Naturally no codec
> > was changed to do that so some codecs relying on it produce pictures with
> > broken colours (let alone remuxing):
> > http://samples.multimedia.cx/avi/palette_change/toon.avi
> > http://samples.multimedia.cx/V-codecs/KMVC/baseball1.avi
> > http://samples.multimedia.cx/V-codecs/QPEG/VWbig6.avi
> > (raw http://samples.multimedia.cx/game-formats/yop/CIMOVI01.avi works by 
> > some
> > coincidence).
> >
> > I think this can be resolved by passing new palette in AVPacket in some way:
> > 0) do nothing and pretent that problem doesn't exist
> > 1a) just add AV_PKG_FLAG_PAL and make codec treat last 1024 bytes of data as
> > palette (should be done for muxers too). Alternatively packet size may be
> > hacked so palette will be after declared packet end (but that's too hacky to
> > my taste).
> > 1å) add AV_PKT_FLAG_PAL and pass only palette change in packet (it may break
> > timestamp handling, I fear)
> > 2) introduce some specific fields in AVPacket for passing such information
> > (too hacky IMO)
> 
> Put the new palette in AVPacket.data[1].

Is the fuss with changing all pkt->data to pkt->data[0] worth it?
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