[MPlayer-dev-eng] BMP Demuxer & 4bpp MS RLE

[Anders Johansson]

> Hi team,
> 	This is a momentous day in the history of MPlayer
> development. This is the day that MPlayer supports 4-bit Microsoft
> RLE. Really. I don't even know if there ever were AVI files with 4-bit
> RLE, but if there are, you can count on MPlayer to play them.
> 
> 	But here's the kicker: Since I needed a way to test the support
> and there are no sample AVIs to be found, but I can create sample BMP
> files, I added a BMP image "demuxer". Actually, it just continuously loads
> the same frame over and over again, twice a second. It works. Maybe we can
> apply this to other still image formats? A JPEG "demuxer" that uses the
> same optimized IDCT routines as the MPEG libraries and uses the Xv
> scaling?

It would be nice to be able to do slide shows with sound (fsck powerpoint use mplayer :). 

//Anders