[MPlayer-users] Open source dvd encoder under winows ( maybe usefull )

[Samuel Maftoul]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 04:04:54PM +0100, Arpi wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> > > yes, you sent a link to the site but the source download was a 404 error..
> > .
> > > opensource, eh?
> > You're interested ?
> > I resent a link to a working site just after the broken one mail's( The main
> > site has to low bandwidth so they want you to dl the sources from
> > somewhere else, in mirrors ) 
> > Here is a mirror with the sources:
> > http://www.itveverka.com/products/default.htm
> 
> Ok, I've downloaded source and checked...
> It is no more, than a windows GUI window hacked around of some unix/linux
> opensource codecs and libs:
> - CSS and IFO parser from OMS
> - mpeg2 encoder and decoder from MPEG Software Simulation Group
> - ac3dec from Aarol Holtzman (libac3)
> - MPADec from <copyright removed from files> afair it's from a japanise guy
> 
> I don't say it's wrong. MPlayer is similar, we're using libs from other
> projects too. But you talked about him (dvdx author) as he wrote everything
> from scratch and he is an mpeg2 expert... it's false.
> 
> He just clocked together a nice(?) gui and probably changed libs a bit to
> fit his needs.
> 
> Ah, and about that nice P4 optimizations "he made":
> 
> /********************************************************************/
> /*THIS SAMPLE CODE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITH NO WARRANTIES
> /*WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY,
> /*NONINFRINGEMENT, FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR ANY           */
> /*WARRANTY OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THIS SAMPLE.
> /********************************************************************/
> /*            Copyright (c) 1999 - 2000 Intel Corporation.
> /*                     All rights reserved.
> /********************************************************************/
This is because Intel send him 2 machines for testing , and he wrote
most of the thing.
He got 2 P4 processor given by intel (for free) , so he wrote that disclaimer.
Moreover, He maybe just took some tools and stick them together, but I
have a bit more framerate while encoding with dvdx + wine , than with
mencoder.
The quality was about the same.
So maybe he didn't do so much work but it works better than "lot of
works" software :) ( just joking, Em really impressed by mplayer +
mencoder)
And as I see, He works really a lot on it.
Should I forward this mail to him ? 
Should I tell him to write / answer you, are you ready to troll ? :)
> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
What is Astral & ESP-team ? 
        Sam