Re: [xine-devel] Demuxer Madness

[Mike M. <mel...@pc...>]

On 7 Jul 2002, Miguel Freitas wrote:

> I thought that WAV files uses the formattag/waveformatex structure, no?
> supporting any codec must be simple. (i have not seen your code yet)

	Yes, WAVs use the same format tags that AVI files do and my code
supports that. But if the WAV file is not format 0, xine segfaults. Like I
said, it's probably a silly bug.

> wow, i never thought that xine would support flic! it's surelly one of the classics!
> i have used animator a lot in the past to do simple animations and image
> editing. it was a quite good program, it even allowed some sort of
> scripting language that was very useful.

	Really? I've never heard of a FLI scripting language. Anyway, the
FLI format isn't too difficult to support. I added it to MPlayer months
ago. The only caveat to decoding the FLI images is that xine only allows
for YUV output. But I think I have that issue taken care of.

> if you really intend to finish you classics colection, mod player would
> be the way to go. frankly i don't see much use for it though (like flic)
> but i believe one of the primary objectives in xine hacking must be
> having fun! ;)

	Didn't someone post a plugin for MOD files a few months back? I'm
a big fan of MOD files, too, and the reason I'm working on xine is that I
want an open source media player that plays all kinds of media files,
regardless of how obscure they may be. However, I can't stand the idea of
MOD-type files being shoehorned into a media playing architecture like
xine/MPlayer or xmms/Winamp. It just doesn't do the format(s) justice. But
I'm a purist.

	If someone else wants to add MOD support to xine, I won't try to
stop them. I just don't plan to devote any time to the task...:)

> Now the xine rule is: _never_ swap fourcc's! Our fourcc "database" is
> built using machine endiannes. so just have to read the string "JFIF" as
> uint32_t and the value will be correct to fourcc_to_buf_video().

	I'll look at this more carefully. Thanks...
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	-Mike Melanson