[FFmpeg-devel] ARMovie/RPL demuxer

[Eli Friedman]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx> wrote:
> Eli Friedman wrote:
>  > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx> wrote:
>  >>  We only have a single ESCAPE 122 sample available:
>  >>
>  >>   http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/game-formats/rpl/bigredracing-escape122/
>  >>
>  >>  Samples for 124 are available and I can provide more if you need. ESCAPE
>  >>  130 samples are very plentiful. Tell me which variation you want to work
>  >>  on and I will set you up with what you need.
>  >
>  > At this point, I'm more interested in making sure all the audio
>  > formats that files actually use are implemented correctly, and also
>  > any video samples that aren't using ESCAPE codecs; I don't really need
>  > more ESCAPE video samples to test because the video codecs aren't
>  > implemented yet.
>
>  I clearly specified that the qualification task includes writing a video
>  decoder for 1 of the 3 ESCAPE variations. You are trying to qualify for
>  GSoC, right?

Well, no... I really don't know how much time I'm going to have time
this summer, so I'm not planning on applying.  I hope it's okay that I
did it anyway; I do have an interest in media codecs.

I actually have started working up a decoder implementation, but i
wanted to make sure the demuxer is solid first.

>  I have never found any ARMovie samples that are not RPL files from Eidos
>  games.

Oh... well, then that settles that, I guess.

-Eli