[MPlayer-users] Question about HD Content Streams!

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 07:47:47PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 03:32:10PM -0000, Phil Rhodes wrote:
> > > LIBAVCODEC LACKS NOTHING!!! /me shakes fist!!! (an obvious attempt at unconditional loyalty)
> > 
> > It lacks a decoder for r210, a 10-bit uncompressed codec widely used in broadcast and cinema work.
> > 
> > Even though the r210 format is (being uncompressed) trivially simple. And a decoder for the (very similar) v210 YUV equivalent exists.
> > 
> > Frustratingly.
> 
> Well, with a sample I expect that could be "fixed" rather quickly, at least
> the infrastructure for more than 8bit/component is there nowadays, it's
> just that hardly anyone ever encounters such files and without a sample to
> test implementing it is not a good idea.

Forget it, we actually already have samples. Nobody seems to have analyzed them yet though
(seems MPlayer can handle them though with binary codecs).