[libdv-dev] Re: xdvplay 0.2 is available

[Brion V. <br...@gi...>]

On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Arne Schirmacher wrote:

> This is a slightly modified version of the playdv.c program from the libdv 
> project. This version now reads AVI files instead of plain DV data files.

Since I don't have any DV AVI files to play with - the only 1394 card I 
have access to is a Digital Origin card with MotoDV on a friend's Win98
box and it only has Quicktime drivers - I hacked up Arne's hack some more
to read my Quicktime files using Quicktime4Linux. I've been able to
display all my DV .mov's so far except for the ones that Q4L itself
mysteriously hangs on for reasons not yet clear to me.

The Quicktime4linux library is available at http://heroine.linuxave.net/,
it compiles to an .a file and has no automatic install so you may need to
hack makefiles depending on where you put it.

A diff to xdvplay_0.2 is attached... With a teensy bit of work a single
program capable of playing .dv, .avi, and .mov files should be doable, and
once libdv is librarized it should be elementary to add the codec to Q4L.

-- brion vibber (br...@po...)