[Bf-committers] need to decide on bug tracker #4201, AVI codecs

[Matt Ebb]

On 18/05/2006, at 09:40 AM, bjornmose wrote:

> Hello all,
> i am a bit stuck with that,
> https://projects.blender.org/tracker/? 
> func=detail&aid=4201&group_id=9&atid=125
>
> overview:
> Most of the windows ( yup, that evil MS OS many users are on ) AVI  
> codecs ( for rendering animations ) work fine if ( and only if )  
> the row   extend ( say X_size  in memory ) of an image is a  
> multiple of 4 bytes. Which is easely achieved by setting image  
> dimensions on X to be n*4 (n in {1,2,3,..} ).

> question:
> is it worth to pull up those peculiarities to the UI and .. gee i  
> don't want think about where to store / retrieve  it :)

I've know that at least DivX files need to be a multiple of 16 on  
each side (most of the time it just gives you a warning when you try  
to save a file that's the wrong dimensions) but nowhere, in any video  
application, on any OS have I ever even seen anything about 'byte  
alignment' when saving videos.

I'd say it's definitely not worth putting that in the UI, most people  
will be absolutely confounded by it, and even the 0.1% of users who  
might know what byte alignment even means, won't know what relevance  
it has to them saving their videos anyway.

cheers

Matt