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

[Rich Felker]

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 :)

If it turns out to be good, it would be nice to make a modified
version without the bogus upside-down image and rgb colorspace...

Rich