[MPlayer-dev-eng] any start up reading material for integrating a custom-made h.264 video decoder into the mplayer software architecture?

[Nico Sabbi]

On Wednesday 10 September 2008 16:04:10 Alex T. W. LEUNG wrote:
> Dear MPlayer community members,
>
> I would like to integrate a custom-made h.264 decoder into the
> current mplayer software architecture. Therefore, I would like to
> seek help in your pointing out some start-up documentations for me
> to read.
>
> For example, any documents describing the API interface that the
> mplayer currently assumes

it doesn't exists

> will be tremendously helpful.

tremendous will be integrating something with mplayer :)

> If there  
> exist any tutorials that can guide me to integrate a vanilla,
> hello-world kind of codec into mplayer, all the better.
>
> My intended use case is to use mplayer to decode h.264 streams
> coming in from youtube, by using a custom-made, proprietary h.264
> decoder.

mplayer is GPL, thus it can't get along with proprietary software
(you can't distribute them together)