Re: [Libvisual-devel] image to VisVideo loader.

[Dennis S. <sy...@yo...>]

On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 23:26 -0300, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
> Em Monday 24 May 2004 23:17, Dennis Smit escreveu:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I need some comments on the following:
> >
> > I want to add an image loader to the visual_video system.
> >
> > The basic idea is to have some functions to load image content
> > from file into a VisVideo, this could be used to replace all these
> > home brew semi but not really working bmp loaders and could
> > be especially handy for openGL texture loading. However I'm not yet
> > decided which image format we want here. The image format needs to
> > be a simple one tho, and the main candidates are, in my opinion
> > xpm and bmp. I think bmp might be better because it's supported
> > in the windows world and by SDL. The xmms plugins i've seen mostly use
> > bmp.
> 
> SDL_image support png and jpeg also, doesn't it?
> Make it an optional requirement and if it doesn't exist use bmp.
> 

Well i don't want to bloat this. And optional requirements mean that
some plugins will only work when the desired image loaders are there.

I personally rather just go for one >simple< format without any external
requirements.

But if we have to pick ONE format you agree that bmp would suite best
probably ?

Cheers,
Dennis