[MPlayer-dev-eng] any start up reading material for integrating a custom-made h.264 video decoder into the mplayer software architecture?

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:04:10PM +0800, Alex T. W. LEUNG wrote:
> 
> I would like to integrate a custom-made h.264 decoder into the current
> mplayer software architecture. Therefore, I would like to seek help in
> your pointing out some start-up documentations for me to read. 

Check out how some of the other codec libs are handled in
libmpcodecs/vd_*.c

Also, be careful of licensing issues.  The resulting MPlayer is likely
to be unredistributable since that proprietary codec is bound to be
incompatible with the GPL.

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Diego