[Ffmpeg-devel] PIX_FMT_RGB555 and alpha channel
Sat Oct 21 21:32:22 CEST 2006
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 11:24:53AM +1100, Steven Johnson wrote:
> >>>could you elaborate on why the alpha channel bit is a problem?
> >>I will elaborate. Alex and I are implementing FLC/FLX and DTA encoding
> >>into ffmpeg. We are a little way from having stuff ready to submit, but
> >>there is a problem with compression when the Alpha bit is set in an
> >>RGB555 pixel, for the FLX format. It means we have to mask every pixel
> >>coming in, to take the spurious alpha bit out, or that bit prevents run
> >>length compression from being effective. The format is really wanting
> >>to use RGB555, without alpha, so that black is 0x0000 and not 0x8000 but
> >why does RLE compression not work with the alpha bit set?
> >and why exactly is the alpha bit set at all? if imgconvert.c sets it, IMO
> >fix imgconvert.c so it doesnt
> Because the FLX format stupidly makes runs of bytes, not pixels.
> therefore 0x80, 0x00, 0x80, 0x00 is uncompressable whereas 0x00, 0x00,
> 0x00, 0x00 is.
then FLX RLE will pretty much just work with total black (=pretty useless)
also by inteligently setting the alpha bit per pixel (the decoder ignores
it anyway i assume) the compression could be improved
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