[MPlayer-dev-eng] RealVideo
Johannes Feigl
jaf.corporation at gmx.at
Wed Dec 26 19:09:32 CET 2001
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 10:55:29AM -0700, Mike Melanson wrote:
> > BTW: a real-demuxer would be also very good ...
> > look at ffmpeg, it has an open-source demuxer and libavcodec can decode
> > a lot of these also real formats ...
>
> True, writing a Real file format demuxer wouldn't be too hard
> (done it before). But what's this about being able to decode the
> compressed media chunks inside? Last time I checked, there were at least 3
> distinct Real audio codecs and 3 distinct Real video codecs, all
> proprietary, closed-source, binary-only. Are you saying that ffmpeg knows
> how to decode those 6 codecs and has implemented them in open source?
well, I don't know which formats they are, but i know from
RV10
H623+
these formats are also used in RealVideo and can be decoded by
libavcodec.
but look at the libavcodec/ffmpeg homepage... maybe you'll find
necessary informations ...
mfg Johannes
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