[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Latest CVS Theora update and about Tremor

[Martin Drab]

On Mon, 18 Aug -1, Arpi wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > > ... 
> > > I'm against doing codec related stuff via libogg, which is a demuxer thing,
> > > esp. that mplayer g2 doesnt have/need libogg at all.
> > 
> > Yes, unfortunately, if there is ever going to be a Theora support by 
> > libtheora, then you would have to link against libogg anyway. :-( Unless 
> > Theora support is natively implanted without libtheora. ;-)
> > 
> > Martin
> 
> Yes, i noticed :(((
> 
> Someone should go and finish VP3 decoder in ffmpeg/libavcodec.
> It's almost coplete, just need to fix UMV instead of clipping motion
> vectors to image aera. Shouldn't be a difficult work, for someone who
> knows that codebase. Unfortunatelly, only Michael knows that, and he
> doesn't seem to be insterested in fixing vp3 :(
> Once we have working vp3, we could add theora header parsing, so
> the vp3 decoder could be initialized from tables tored in file,
> instead of builtin static data. Afaik no other difference between
> theora and vp3.
> 
> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

Really? Form what they're saying on their web page one would think 
there's more differences than just header parsing. What would take them so
long to create it then?

Martin