[MPlayer-dev-eng] Wishlist round 2

[Alex Beregszaszi]

Hi,

> Four points for the wishlist:
>   * seeking in realmedia files
it's working since years (you need to use -idx or -forceidx)
also i havn't tested it with the new real codec interface, but with
audio-only files and rv10 it's working right (expect the a-v sync, but
it's bad anyway with rv10)


> 
> (Just three architectural 'Would Be Nice, but, as yet, Too Lazy To Do It
> Myself' points)
> 
>   * ability of vo drivers to request 'scaling' playback speed of fixed
>     fps movies. (so that mplayer would automatically speed up 23.97 fps
>     material to 25 fps for playback on a pal tv (i.e. the sound will be
>     played faster too to stay in sync, the pitch becomes higher)
we need the new audio filter layer with an audio filter supporting that

>   * A 'cinerama' video filter that can be used to distribute the frames
>     over different (instances of) vo devices. (as in: 'send the left part
>     of the movie to THIS (+parameters) vo driver and send the right part
>     to THAT vo driver) The zr driver can do this, but I feel that it is
>     the job of the MPlayer core and not of the video output drivers.
hm, use ggi? :) it can do that

>   * Move the zoran jpeg encoder to the video filters. This can only
or (better?) merge it back into lavc (i'm willing to help in that)

>     be done if the zr driver (or vo drivers in general) can report their
>     capabilities to the video filters. Example: for the DC10+, the zr
>     driver should say something like this:
>        For MJPEG_NONINTERLACED, I can do full screen at
>          - 768x288 pixel aspect 2, partial images must have height%8 == 0
>            and width%16 == 0, partial images can be placed everywhere
>          - 384x288 pixel aspect 1, partial images blah blah blah...
>          - ..... etc ...
>       For MJPEG_INTERLACED, I can do full screen at
>          - 768x576 pixel aspect 1, partial images must have height%16 == 0
>            and width%16 == 0, partial images blahblah.....
>     The X11 driver should give a list of resolutions defined in
>     XF86Condig and xv should be able to say 'I can do everything'.
>     'Fullscreen decisions' like: 'should we scale', 'what resolution
>     should be used', 'is aspect preserved' can be moved from the vo
>     drivers to the MPlayer core. vo drivers will be dumb again and only
>     able to put black borders around partial images. (and maybe subtitle
>     overlay, but I am not into that) Maybe there are/will be vo drivers that
>     do not allow partial images, so scale or expand will become necessary.

-- 
Alex Beregszaszi  <alex at naxine.org>