[MPlayer-G2-dev] Native codecs and g2

[Roberto Togni]

Any news about codecs in g2?

Some time ago A'rpi was thinking about moving to a get/release buffer  
method instead of get_image/mpi as g1. At the end, IIRC, he said he's  
going to stay with mpi.
It is a final decision or it's still a work in progress item?

I was thinking about moving most of the native codecs from libmpcodecs  
to ffmpeg/libavcodec since a long time.
This could be the right time to do it, and it's even more true if  
codecs have to be modified to be used in g2.

The codecs i'm thinking about are old QT codecs (rle, rpza, smc,  
8bps, ...) and old vfw codecs (Cinepak, cvid, msrle, ...), but probably  
every native codec can be moved (lcl and lzo depends on external libs,  
i have to check how ffmpeg handles it).
Some codecs are already available in libavcodec, even if MPlayer uses  
its own version (various adpcm audio codecs, cyuv, realaudio 1.0 and  
2.0, and probably others i don't remember now).

Pro: less code to port and mantain, more people will be able to use  
them and fix bugs
Cons: MPlayer without libavcodec will be unable to play most files  
(unless you use binary codecs), but i think that using MPlayer without  
libavcodec is not a wise choice even now.

What's your opinion about it?

Ciao,
 Roberto