[MPlayer-dev-eng] Questions About Audio Decoding

[Arpi]

Hi,

> > are you willing to add only apple variant of rle? (i mean 4bit msrle variant
> > can be added too)
> > have you got some samples? can you upload it?
> 
> 	What other flavors are there besides Apple and MS? The MS flavor
> is already covered by the adapted XAnim code. Doesn't it handle the 4-bit
> variant? Oh...I just looked at the code and saw that it's not covered.
> Okay, I'll try to add that, too. Should I rewrite the MS-RLE8 decoder as
> well, in order to help reduce the volume of that weird XAnim code in the
> codebase?

yes...
i did converted 8bpp variant, upon a request of our sponsor (who donated the
mphq server). it was a half-hour hack...

> 	Unless, by "did you saw the sourcecode?", you meant "have you
> glanced at the sheer enormity of the task ahead?" Well, all I can say is
> that I figured out enough of the MPlayer codebase to add a video decoder
> AND a file demuxer...
you were the first (and last :))))

> there is *no way* the VP3 source could be more
> convoluted...:) (and it isn't; I've seen it)
possible :)


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