# HG changeset patch
# User tmmm
# Date 1065160206 0
# Node ID 446ff1d593b0ef9bcf4215b9bb4bf80e9bc07b9c
# Parent  9eb9b77cf418903a5556acd0b12ee6e8d34f269d
instructions for using the decoder

diff -r 9eb9b77cf418 -r 446ff1d593b0 idcinvideo.c
--- a/idcinvideo.c	Fri Oct 03 05:43:03 2003 +0000
+++ b/idcinvideo.c	Fri Oct 03 05:50:06 2003 +0000
@@ -24,7 +24,12 @@
  * For more information about the Id CIN format, visit:
  *   http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~timf/
  *
- * This video decoder outputs PAL8 colorspace data.
+ * This video decoder outputs PAL8 colorspace data. Interacting with this
+ * decoder is a little involved. During initialization, the demuxer must
+ * transmit the 65536-byte Huffman table(s) to the decoder via extradata.
+ * Then, whenever a palette change is encountered while demuxing the file,
+ * the demuxer must use the same extradata space to transmit an
+ * AVPaletteControl structure.
  *
  * Id CIN video is purely Huffman-coded, intraframe-only codec. It achieves
  * a little more compression by exploiting the fact that adjacent pixels