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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:51:55AM +0200, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
> 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.

If you have no samples, how have you created the codecs.conf entry?

Diego