[MPlayer-users] libavcodec/tiff.c

[John Brown]

RC wrote:
>On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:08:03 -0400
>"John Brown" <johnbrown105 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I have recently discovered the existence of what appears to be a TIFF 
>>decoder in libavcodec. While I am familiar with encoding video from a 
>>sequence of JPEG images, the manual does not say anywhere that TIFF
>>images  may be used in this way, and my attempt to do so failed
>
>As it should, demux_mf.c supports only jpeg png tga and sgi
>
>>Is the TIFF decoder working?
>
>I can't say for certain, since I don't have any quicktime .mov files
>around that use tiff, but I would assume so.
>
Like The Wanderer, I assumed that the only possible use would be with
mencoder mf://. I did not realize that there were movies with TIFF 
compression.

>>It it is, then I assume that I need a TIFF  library. Does anyone know
>>which library?
>
>I'll go out on a limb and say, perhaps "libtiff" would be worth a try. 
>However, I don't believe you need any external libs.
>
>>What else do I need to do?
>
>Patch mf.c to add tiff support.
>
OK.

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