[MPlayer-dev-eng] SMV codec

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On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:34:50 -0400, xtremek2008 at aim.com wrote:
>On Tuesday 24 June 2008 18:22:10 Reza Jelveh wrote:
>> On Jun 25, 2008, at 12:11 AM, xtremek2008 at aim.com wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > ????????I recently cracked the .smv (SigmaTel Motion Video) format.
>> > It is a very simple format for small mp3 players that have the
>> > capability of playing videos. It is basically a wav file, some
>> > header magic, and an array of jpegs.
>> > I want to make a codec and add it to mplayer. Would I have to create
>> > a muxer for this type of file? I read the FFMpeg codec howto
>> > (http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=FFmpeg_codec_howto) and
>> > it was saying something about demuxers; I don't know if I would
>> > need one for my codec!
>
>> i think would you want to do is a demuxer for this container.
>> so its either libavformat in ffmpeg  or libmpdemux directly in mplayer.
>
>I would like to add it to libavformat for ffmpeg. So what exactly is the
>demuxer? I think it just extracts the video frames for the decoder, but
>I'm not sure..
>
>If I add my demuxer + codec to libavformat/libavcodec, will the ffmpeg
>project be also get the files I added? I want the ffmpeg project have
>the .smv format (as well as mplayer). Thanks again!
>Xtreme Kommander

if you add it to ffmpeg, mplayer will get the support for it.
thats why it was suggested you send it to ffmpeg. that way both
projects can benefit (and many more like vlc, xine).

could you upload some sample smv files to:
ftp://upload.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming

-compn