Re: [xine-user] What is the buffer type for uncompressed 8bit greyscale (avi) video.

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

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Klaus Robert Suetterlin wrote:

> I have a lot (>2TB) of ``legacy'' avi files which contain uncompressed
> 8bit greyscale dib frames.  (Currently I rip them into PGM images
> using an evil hacked up one shot prototype.  This works, but is
> slow and does not allow to look at the videos in a convenient way.)
>
> All Windows player show these avis as uncompressed 8bit indexed with a
> random color table.  I especially love ``all black'' and ``hues of
> green'' color tables.
>
> There seems to be no unix player that can handle them at all.
>
> I wanted to write a video decoder for xine, but couldn't find out
> which BUF_VIDEO_* type is right.  I scanned ``src/xine-engine/buffer.h'',
> but this didn't help.  As I haven't read all the hacker docs, and
> not all the source code I do not know how / where these buffer types
> are generated (I guess hard coded).  Most likely buffer types are
> hard coded and there is no BUF_VIDEO_* for this kind of buffer,
> yet.
>
> Any help in getting this buffer type (into my code and into buffer.h)
> is highly appreciated.  Any AAAP (as acurate as possible) pointer
> to fine manuals is welcome.  I enjoy verbose answers without
> references, too.

	This sounds beyond trivial to implement. If you can make some
nominal samples available, I could probably hack it in either today or
tomorrow. Can you make some samples available for download? Alternatively,
FTP -> ftp.mplayerhq.hu and upload some samples in /MPlayer/incoming; be
sure to leave an accompanying text file describing the uploaded files.

	Thanks...
--
	-Mike Melanson