[MPlayer-dev-eng] Questions About Audio Decoding

[Arpi]

Hi,

> > > > * Quicktime color depth
> > > > * Apple Animation (RLE)
> > are you going to implement 4bit rle too, or only 16bit? (xa_rle.c is 16bit
> > only, if i'm right) 
> 
> 	Actually, per my understanding, xa_rle.c only handles the
> Microsoft flavor of RLE, which only has 4- and 8-bit variants. Looking in
8bit only

> the XAnim source, the file xa_qt_decs.c has Apple's flavor of RLE, which
> comes in *7* variants (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, and 32bpp), believe it or not.
> The latter is what I'm going after.
i know :)

> > > > * VP3 native support
> > how do you mean that?
> 
> 	VP3, as I understand it, is supported in MPlayer via a Win32
> codec. This is suboptimal, particularly when the VP3 sources are open. If
> I have this situation incorrect, someone please let me know before I hurt
> myself on the code.

yes, it's open. but it's written for windows and mac. however, it could be
ported to linux, but i can't estimate how much work is it. it doesn't seems
to be very portable to me.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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