[FFmpeg-devel] snow codec development

[Dennis Meuwissen]

Ivo wrote:
> On Saturday 01 September 2007 13:27, Luca Barbato wrote:
>   
>> Ivo wrote:
>>     
>>> I think, if wide-spread adoption of snow is the goal, there's a need
>>> for a small and easy to install codec for Windows. Also, it would help
>>> if some
>>>       
>> ffmpeg windows builds like ffdshow aren't already available?
>>     
>
> Looks like the latest stable release is over five years old and the latest 
> alpha almost three. Plus, it's more than just snow. I think some sort of 
> wrapper around snow*.[ch], an easy installer and the ability to just play 
> snow-in-avi with WMP after that, or transcode with virtualdub, is what's 
> needed to have the possibility of gaining any populairity instead of being 
> an interesting niche codec.
>   
FFDShow like FFMPEG doesn't seem to officially release any binaries. 
Googling shows me some locations,
with at least one dated 2007/08/29.
>   
>>> major HDTV rip group adopted snow for their high quality rips, but that
>>> would need the former first. Both these things is what made xvid
>>> popular IMHO.
>>>       
>> First we need a stable bitstream I think ^^;
>>     
>
> Yes :)
>
> --Ivo
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