[MPlayer-G2-dev] Codec identifier (fourcc) handling proposal

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 11:21:38PM +0100, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > There's a need for defining the way we're handling codec identifiers, in
> > G1 this wasn't such a big issue, as MEncoder could only handle AVI well.
> > 
> > 1, input layer - demuxer
> > 2, core
> > 3, output layer - muxer
> > 
> > Imho in core we should deal with fourcc's (four character codes) only,
> > both for audio and video. Maybe we should define better names for audio
> > codecs. You know that AVI uses twocc for audio, but others (real, qt)
> > uses fourcc for that too and nut is going to handle this situation well.
> > 
> > The input layer should wrap the known identifiers to fourccs known by
> > the core.
> 
> the second parameter to fourcc/format 'commands' of codecs.conf is for this
> maybe we should merge fourcc and format, to fourcc, and stuff in ' ' or
> " " would be always fourcc ("1234"), numbers (0x1234 or 1234) are formats,
> and the rest is fourcc too. this could be done for g1 too.

IMO most of codecs.conf is obsolete...

Rich