[MPlayer-dev-eng] codecs

[Ed Okerson]

On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Arpi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Where would one have to start hacking to make such a feature work?  Is it
> > a fundamental issue that would be a massive undertaking to make work?
>
> the currect libmpcodecs layer was designed it in my mind, so it shouldn't be
> hard to do at codec side. anyway no one of the demuxers nor teh
> sh_video/sh_audio struct supports this thing.
>
> imho the first step would be adding tis to the demuxer you want to use. for
> mov it's demux_mov.c. what file format and codecs are you interested?

I would like to do it in an RTP stream (unicast), but I am leary of the
real.com C++ implementation.  I much prefer C.  Once I get it implemented
in the demuxer what else needs to be done?

> > > > How would mplayer deal with a video stream that changes codecs mid stream?
> > >
> > > it cannot.
> > > do you mean .mov files?
> > > afaik others don't even allow such hting
>
>
> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
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