[Openquicktime-devel] New OpenQuicktime code layout

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Hi,
I've downloaded the latest CVS code, but had to make some minor
modifications in order to get it compile back on Unix/Linux platforms:

 - audio/mp3 Makefile => generats _two_ codecs, .mp3 and _ms (there was
a bug in the first release of Makefile.am of the new layout, and then
one codec was disabled, I put back the way it was before, but with the bug
corrected)

 - player and encoder now have their own Makefile.am, they are built and
installed automatically by the toplevel Makefile (but oqtplayer is built
only if the configure script can find sdl-config)

 - there was some dlerror mistake in plugin.c (should only be used if
dlopen/dlsym/dlclose return NULL, it seems invalid to try dlerror()!=NULL
to check for an error)

It's now working fine on my computer and I have put these modifications
back in the CVS... However, I may have broken some things (and I had to
./bootstrap the code, maybee using older version of
libttol/automake/autoconf)!


>I have been working on the Uncompressed and IMA4 codecs.
>
>Should I be trying to implement them as internal codecs ?
>- or was the plan to make all Codecs external - in which case there
>seems to be a lot of dead code there... ?

The idea was to have one minimal Quicktime library, and many little
external codecs, one for each format/fourcc.
QT4Linux did not have plug-in support, so all was implemented in the core
library as internal codecs and we have this as a legacy => get rid of this
code if you can!


I also have the 3ivx Delta 3.5 codec modified so that it works with this
new version (and slightly modified plug-in interface)...

-
Antoine