[MPlayer-users] Codec support request for EV/EV2 videos

[Arpi]

Hi,

> Personally, I think they just used some modified version of common video 
> format and some inspection of a sample video may show if i'm right or 
> not. I'd like to provide more information, but the only things I have 
> are videos and Java player. Not much to explore. I can upload one small 
> (16782 bytes) EV2 clip if somebody is interested to look at it.
> 
> Is there any chance to support this? Should I try somebody to hack out 
> something out of those Java classes? Or anything else? I'm really out of 

you should find someone interested enough to start reverse engineering an
unknown format. i suspect it's something simple, as java is just too slow
for complex formats like mpeg or wavelets. so it's probably some vector
quantization (like sorenson) or indeo or cinepak, but these operate on big
data tables so no way to reverse engineer it from teh file unless you
analyze the dcoder software too. and it isn't easy...


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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