[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] add AIC and ProRes422 binary codec support

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:11:20PM -0400, compn wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:21:42 -0400, Andrew Wason wrote:
> >Sorry for the delayed response.
> >
> >On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:31 PM, compn<tempn at twmi.rr.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:49:21 -0400, Andrew Wason wrote:
> >>>
> >>>This patch adds support for the QuickTime binary codecs for AIC (Apple
> >>>Intermediate Codec) and ProRes422, currently only on Mac though.
> >>
> >> ppc or x86?
> >
> >I tested on x86, I suspect it would work on ppc too.
> 
> someone asked me about prores support.
> i think there is a lot of interest in this codec.
> 
> if anyone wants to help, the best way is to:
> apply this patch locally
> clean it up (undo the #if 0 code removal, and the comment changes)
> make it a smaller patch, seperate AIC/prores changes (if possible?)
> test it with all qtcodecs on all platforms that use that code
> benchmark it to see if its faster/slower/buggy
> submit the patch back here.

Provide at least one sample file, better more, best a "regular" one
and also some trivial ones (white only, black only, simple patterns,
simple alternating, simple slowly moving patters) to ease development
of a native FFmpeg decoder (of course, if there is or if you can somehow
get a specification for the format even better - though it seems Apple
is far more interested in ensuring vendor-lockin).