[MPlayer-dev-eng] Xan codec (Xxan) support

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:28:06PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> I stumbled upon the old Wing Commander 4 game and noticed that their
> movies1.tre files are actually AVIs with some garbage at the beginning
> (-sb 4096 helps here). But, they are encoded with some strange codec,
> FourCC: Xxan. I've located the codec dll (xanlib.dll) but I can't get
> it working. So I've uploaded the codec dll and a 5MB chunk of a sample
> file (without the initial garbage) into /MPlayer/incoming/Xxan at
> MPHQ. Sound in this file is detected by MPlayer as uncompressed PCM
> audio 22kHz/16bit/stereo, but sounds obviously wrong when played with
> -vc null.
> 
> There's some Windows software which can play these files, too:
> http://www.wcrevival.de/hcl/movie_player.html
> It uses the xanlib.dll and SDL.

Maybe you should send this info to Mike Melanson, he'll surely implement
this into xine from where we can later port it.

Diego