RE: General Xvidcore questions

Michael,

Thank you very much for your answers, this cleared some of my doubts.

Thanks,
-Harsha

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Militzer [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 9:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [XviD-users] General Xvidcore questions
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Quoting Harsha Viswanath <[email protected]>:
> 
> > I would appreciate answers for a couple of general questions -
> >
> > Can the Xvidcore code be used as a reference decoder for the
profiles
> > and levels that it supports?  What is the level of testing that it
has
> > undergone?
> >  I find this implementation a much cleaner implementation compared
to
> > Momusys.
> 
> yes, the code is more easily understandable and we're proud about this
;-)
> Nonetheless, xvidcore is not meant to replace a reference
implementation,
> so I wouldn't recommend such a use (even though I know people do so).
The
> decoder has been tested with some of the MPEG conformance bitstreams,
> however there is no *full* compliance to any profile - more below:
> 
> > Right now Xvidcore does not support ASP profile right?  If no, then
when
> > can we expect support for this profile.
> 
> The latest versions of xvidcore (1.0 RC3 source code or dev-api-4
branch
> on xvid cvs) support the advanced simple profile - at least the most
> common
> features. This means: Quarterpixel MC, BVOPs and Global MC are
supported,
> but the following is missing for full compliance: data partitioning,
> reversible vlc and field prediction. So you see, XviD can't serve as a
> complete replacement for a reference implementation.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> regards,
> Michael
> 
> 
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