[MPlayer-dev-eng] proposed new codecs.conf [Re: new video codec selection code]

[Juan J. Sierralta P.]

On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 08:30, Daniel Egger wrote:
> Am Mit, 2002-03-20 um 03.05 schrieb Juan J. Sierralta P.:
> 
> > 	When you're gonna send the patch ?
> 
> The patch(es) are only for components which are included in mplayer
> (ffmpeg/libmpeg2/mp3lib (in work)) but developped within so it's
> probably so at least for libavcodec mplayer is not the right place
> to submit the changes.

	I know. Send the patch to ffmpeg-devel or to me to commit it to CVS.

> Further I need infrastructure changes to mplayer and the subcomponents
> to detect AltiVec presence and push the information about the
> availability of a working compiler/binutils from configure to the
> subcomponents. Although I've extended configure to detect the presence
> I still lack the runtime detection, there needs to be more work
> done to get it running correctly on non-AltiVec machines.

	At least post the patch at ffmpeg-devel, there are some PPC out there
....


> No, in fact this information is only available under NDA and only for
> very special people. I know exactly four people on earth who have this
> information:
> - Dirk Hohndel (former SuSE CTO, now at HP I believe)
> - James Simmons (Transvirtual, the framebuffer guy)
> - Keith Packard (SuSE, Core X developer, Xft freak)
> - Me (not affiliated with any of the above anymore :))
> 
> Problem is that the information is so sparse that neither of those 4
> can really decipher it. I managed to setup the engine (well, I believe
> so since I couldn't test it) but have no clue how to pass the
> coefficients into the engine, they're probably memory mapped but I don't
> know where, maybe they could be passed using the standard messaging
> system but I don't know which packets to send.

	:(

 
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