[MPlayer-dev-eng] Lagarith Lossless Video Codec - binary dll but opensource

[Gianluigi Tiesi]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 06:49:03PM -0500, Compn wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 00:27:25 +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 05:05:01AM +0200, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
> >> A guy on irc pointed me to this codec,
> >> it seems interesting, multithread encoding is
> >> fast (36 fps on a amd64 x2 1.7ghz)
> >> 
> >> it's a binary vfw codec, but it is opensource
> >> so a native implementation can be made
> >> 
> >> it works fine on mplayer/mencoder both linux and win32
> >> 
> >> web: http://lags.leetcode.net/codec.html
> >> 
> >> conf for codecs.conf:
> >> 
> >> videocodec lagarith
> >>   info "Lagarith Lossless Video Codec"
> >>   comment "http://lags.leetcode.net/codec.html"
> >>   status working
> >>   fourcc LAGS
> >>   driver vfw
> >>   dll "lagarith.dll"
> >>   out BGR32,BGR24 flip
> >> 
> >> correct me if out is wrong, I really never understood how it really
> >> works :)
> >
> >Roberto?
> 
> imo we can add it to codecs.conf , but dont need binary dll
> since we still havent found any file in the wild.
> 

it's a lossless codec, it may be useful

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