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

Gianluigi Tiesi mplayer at netfarm.it
Tue Oct 23 01:51:55 CEST 2007


On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 04:52:00PM +0200, 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 :)
> 
> We need samples for our samples collection and to verify your patch ..

Unfortunately I don't have samples, I can make some samples I can
use mencoder or virtualdub but the result is the same.
In the tests I've made I was able to encode and decode.
I think that since the encoder is vfw and mencoder is able
to make videos we can safely use them as reference.

Bye

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Gianluigi Tiesi <sherpya at netfarm.it>
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