[MPlayer-dev-eng] NuppelVideo

Alex Beregszaszi alex at naxine.org
Wed Dec 26 19:06:59 CET 2001


Hi,

On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 10:55:29AM -0700, Mike Melanson wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Johannes Feigl wrote:
> 
> > BTW: a real-demuxer would be also very good ...
> > look at ffmpeg, it has an open-source demuxer and libavcodec can decode
> > a lot of these also real formats ...
> 
> 	True, writing a Real file format demuxer wouldn't be too hard
> (done it before). But what's this about being able to decode the
> compressed media chunks inside? Last time I checked, there were at least 3
> distinct Real audio codecs and 3 distinct Real video codecs, all
> proprietary, closed-source, binary-only. Are you saying that ffmpeg knows
> how to decode those 6 codecs and has implemented them in open source?

FFmpeg knows only RV10 (RealVideo 1.0 or what) and it says that it can
decode all real video stream up to samples produced by RealEncoder 5.0 (or
what?).

Btw, i worked a little time on Realplayer for linux's shared libraries. But
it's written C++ and personally I hate C++ :p

> 
> 	Thanks...
> --
> 	-Mike Melanson
> 
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alex



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