[MPlayer-dev-eng] cvid codec

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 07:38:45PM +0200, Christian Ohm wrote:
> 
> hi.
> 
> On Wednesday, 11 June 2003 at  0:16, Arpi wrote:
> > > cvidvfw should be disabled in codecs.conf.
> > > The native cvid works better.
> > > Even though cvidvfw says "status working" I have seen a sample in which
> > > with cvidvfw, the image looks as though it was uncompressed into a x*y
> > > buffer and rendered as (x+1)*y, with a funny black diagonal line from
> > > top right into bottom left, and the image on the right of that reversed.
> > > 
> > > native cvid gives good image.
> > 
> > also there are samples where it's the opposite native codec is buggy whiel
> > dll works
> 
> why not default to the native codecs when they reach a state of
> more-or-less-working (at least for development versions (cvs) and perhaps
> -pre/-rc)? imho this would be a good idea because people would then actually
> use those codecs and could report bugs. as it is now, the only time the
> native codecs are used (if they're not default) is by people actually
> testing them or when a dll doesn't work.

Or by people who don't install the win32 crap, which seems to be an
increasing number these days... :)

Rich