[matthewmacleod]

Huh. I don't think it's just you - that looks like some properly nasty code. Formatting is all over the place, lines are commented out, comments are useless and obviously wrong in places...

I don't really speak C++ though, so maybe this is normal.

[nly]

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

[midas007]

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.

[0x09]

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

[nly]

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.