[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] [RFC] fringe formats

[Aurelien Jacobs]

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:51:49 +0100
Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:

> Here is a patch that adds support for a few more fringe formats through
> libavformat.  Unfortunately they don't quite work yet.  Here's a short
> list of the issues.
> 
> ffwc3:
> http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/game-formats/wc3-mve/
> Works fine in ffplay, MPlayer produces a black video.  Could be a
> swscaler issue, the palette filter gets inserted.

Don't work in ffplay with --enable-swscaler.

> ffidcin:
> http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/game-formats/idcin/
> Same, but a dark shadow of the video appears on the screen.

Don't work in ffplay with --enable-swscaler.

> ffinterplay:
> http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/game-formats/interplay-mve/
> ffplay has heavy artifacting, MPlayer black video, xine is fine.

Don't work in ffplay with --enable-swscaler.

All those files give the following message:

swScaler: Palette is not supported as input format
Cannot initialize the conversion context

It seems that swscale still hasn't reached imgconvert feature set.

Aurel