[MPlayer-dev-eng] QuickTime

[ktolis]

On Wednesday, Sep 18, 2002, at 20:24 Europe/Athens, D Richard Felker 
III wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 11:29:13AM +0300, ktolis wrote:
>> umm...
>>
>> hello
>>
>> i was wondering if you are considering in adding QuickTime support in
>> MPlayer. Let me exaplain. In MacOSX you can use the Carbon framework 
>> to
>> utilize QuickTime to read the data from the .mov .mp4 .avi etc etc etc
>
> Using the entire framework is silly; you might as well just use
> Apple's junky player. There have already been efforts to load just the
i don't find anything junky with the player when I am not on Windows....

> needed stuff for Quicktime and call into it directly, but it's hard
> work reverse engineering the interface. Read the archives for info:
>
> http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/qt-codecs-porting
>
Ah... Arpi understood what I meant...

> Also most of this work has been on x86 so far, so even if it ever does
> progress more, it probably won't be supported on mac unless someone
> using mac is interested in coding it.
>
>> this would be a nice feature. I was thinking also if you could add
>> support on the native mpeg2 decoding library under MacOSX (or the
>> extension you may buy from Apple that does that under QuickTime) so
>> DVDs are playable with MPlayer.
>
> Huh? You don't need quicktime or some proprietary Apple lib for DVD,
> it's just mpeg2. MPlayer already has both libmpeg2 and libavcodec
> which can decode mpeg2. If DVD support isn't working on OSX, it's a
> matter of the DVD reading code not being ready, NOT a codec issue.
>
> Rich
>
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