[MPlayer-G2-dev] Native codecs and g2

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Tuesday 23 September 2003 22:49, Roberto Togni wrote:
> 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).
cinepack, msvidc, msrle have been ported to ffdshow/libavcodec by someone 
(milan cutka maybe), melanson said (a long time ago) that he would port them 
to ffmpeg/libavcodec

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