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

[Gustavo S. B. <gu...@gs...>]

Em Ter=E7a 25 Maio 2004 08:20, Dennis Smit escreveu:
> 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.

why? the internal representation is the same. 32bpp (RGBA).

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

Make it optional, if user compile without it then it just read bitmaps.


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

I don't like bitmap, but it's the easiest, so go with it.

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