[MPlayer-users] Blackmagic Codec
Larry Reznick
lreznick at idistream.com
Fri Feb 15 23:00:20 CET 2008
Roberto Togni wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:36:06 -0800
> Larry Reznick <lreznick at idistream.com> wrote:
>
>
>> RC wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:53:46 -0800
>>> Larry Reznick <lreznick at idistream.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> A reference from 2006 that I found shows someone configuring
>>>> codecs.conf to use the blackmagiccodec.qtx. I downloaded the latest
>>>> Windows XP version from http://www.decklink.com/support/software/ but
>>>> it comes in the form of an MSI (Microsoft Installer) file, not a QTX
>>>> file.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> An MSI is a (compressed) application installer, much like many EXE's.
>>> In other words, there's probably a qtx inside it, but you'll need a
>>> Windows environment to get at it.
>>>
>> I got the Blackmagic codec for XP to work on Fedora 6. After installing
>> the MSI file on a Windows box, I transferred the BMDCodecLib.dll file to
>> my F6 system and installed the DLL file into /usr/local/lib/codecs with
>> the others. I added the following to codecs.conf:
>>
>> videocodec qtv210
>> info "Win32/QuickTime Blackmagic 10Bit"
>> status working
>> fourcc v210
>> driver vfw
>> dll "BMDCodecLib.dll"
>> out BGR32
>>
>> Setting the driver to qtvideo fails because qtvideo appears to only
>> check for the various Quicktime DLLs, typically using the qtx suffix.
>> But, the vfw driver worked. Maybe one of the developers will add this
>> entry to the default codecs.conf.
>>
>>
>
> Please upload a sample file and the dll to our ftp
> ftp://upload.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming/ and then tell us the file
> names.
>
> Ciao,
> Roberto
I uploaded blackmagic.codecs.conf, which has the qtv210 entry near the
top of the file. The rest of the file is the codecs.conf that comes with
the current revision (SVN r26003).
I also uploaded BMDCodecLib.dll, which is the free DLL embedded in the
Windows XP MSI file that one would download from Decklink. I presume
that future versions Decklink makes available would work similarly and
that one would only have to overwrite the one I uploaded with a newer
version.
--Larry
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