[MPlayer-dev-eng] about Sorenson support on linux

[Alex Beregszaszi]

Hi,

> > On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:27:28AM +0200, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> > > have you looked at mplayer-cvs? it already supports sorenson v1
> > > and arpi works on improving the code to integrate it into libavcodec...
> 
> > Yes, I saw that, but it did not play any of my sorenson videos.
> > I assumed that it was not the same code as in xine/libquicktime,
> > because the libquicktime demo player has no problems decoding
> > the videos.  Should I upload a few videos that don't work?
> 
> Okay, nevermind, I did get the sorenson video to work.  The problem
> seems to be that there's no YVU9 support in any of the libvo drivers,
> and that vop scale won't convert the colorspace.  After reading, I found
> that vop yvu9 makes it work.  Why is this conversion not supported by
> vop scale?  Could this be either integrated into vop scale or called
> by vop scale when YVU9 input is recieved?  It seems odd that one should
> explicitly specify just one colorspace conversion when all the rest are
> handled automagically.
yvu9 is now supported by swscaler (-vop scale)
vidix supports yvu9 with ATI cards (Mach64, Rage128, Radeon)

Btw, you can watch now the Indeo movies with YVU9 out (speedup and better
quality when upscaling with software scaler)

-
alex