[MPlayer-dev-eng] Question Re: Encoding a QT file with mencode

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:02:25PM -0800, J. J. Franzen wrote:
> Arpi wrote:
> 
> >no it isn't....
> >
> >gettig qtx decoding to work took a half year. i started developing the
> >qts debug/trace/emu toolkit at spring and now we got to have it working.
> >ok it wasn't a too active development, except that 6-8 weeks...
> >
> >i can predict a 3-5 weeks of development to get qtx encoding work, same
> >amount for mov muxer... can be done in parallel. so not an overnight, sure.
> >
> I see...  Well, that at least gives me something to esitmate costs for 
> hiring a programmer to do just that...  Thanks for the info!

Out of curiosity, why are you so interested in encoding qt? IMHO it's
a very bad thing, it just makes for more movie files encoded with
crappy proprietary codecs that can only be played on x86 with the
binary qtx stuff.

IMHO, a much better way to spend your time would be running the qtx
decoders (now that mplayer can use them) through the debugger a lot
and reverse engineering Sorensen 3, then writing en/decoder for lavc.
Or if you're willing to spend (lots of) money (which you seem to be
considering), a better approach might just be bribing an insider for
specs then implementing it for lavc. :))

Rich