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It's not because it's C++... this is just really ugly code.



The good point is that other hacked together quasi-compatible implementations now have an "official" reference implementation to browse. It could be a lot worse... I've waded through uncommented OCaml to discover how a certain shall-go-unnamed commercial, non-restful XML API worked. Or, Cisco could've never open-sourced it.


AVC/H.264, like many MPEG standards, has an official reference implementation: http://iphome.hhi.de/suehring/tml/


I'm not in to video circles anymore, but I was under the impression the existing open source implementations were way better. The reason this code is significant is Cisco is providing licensed binaries.




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