[XviD-devel] 0x7f breaks decoding

[Christoph Lampert]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Michael Militzer wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > michael, the 0x7f check in decoder.c breaks encoding
> > with max_b==-1
> 
> breaks _encoding_? why encoding?

_decoding_ of course, sorry... (see subject).

> > And of course it's not MPEG-4 to use it.
> 
> sure
> 
> > This _must_ be handled differently!
> 
> yes. The whole 0x7f stuff could be done within vfw (this means writing to
> the bitstream for encoding and checking for it while decoding). avi
> dependant code should be outside core.
> 
> btw: why does b-frame decoding work for you linux guys? Since xvidcore
> alsways writes out the 0x7f, it will be present in linux created avi's, too.
> How do you handle this?

No idea, I simply call the decoder and it works unless max_b==-1.

gruel