Re: [xine-cvs] CVS: xine-lib/src/xine-engine buffer.h,1.141,1.142 buffer_types.c,1.83,1.84

[Michael R. <mr...@us...>]

Hi James,

> > - add a nice name for the AVC1 codec
>
> ...
>
> > +  BUF_VIDEO_H264,
> > +  "Apple Video Codec (H264)"
>
> I thought "AVC" stood for "Advanded Video Coding". Here's a reference:
>
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/h264.html

It does. In fact, there are a lot of different names for it:
* H.264
* H264
* AVC
* MPEG4 AVC
* MPEG4 Video Layer 10

But it is not Apple-specific (it's just that Apple supports it heavily as a 
"more open" alternative to WMV9), so I think we should rename it to "Advanced 
Video Coding (H264)".

Michael

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