[MPlayer-users] Codec support request for EV/EV2 videos

[tdc]

Arpi wrote:

>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>Hi,
>
>read codecs.html about what do we need for new codec support.
>especially we need the extracted DLLs from windows player and some info from
>registry. don't expect us to install windows, install the player and do it,
>we won't ever install windoze.
>  
>

Sure I know about codecs.html. The problem is elsewhere. The player is 
standalone application in form of Java applet (don't know if standalone 
windows application even existed so far - it was aimed as web-only video 
format) and the decoding routines are not registering themselves because 
they are coded directly in the class files, thus there are no DLLs which 
can be extracted. This player (packed in CAB or JAR, but in both cases, 
it's still Java application) is the only one i know about. Sure there 
was some windows based encoder, but it's already abandoned and it was 
commercial software anyway.

Personally, I think they just used some modified version of common video 
format and some inspection of a sample video may show if i'm right or 
not. I'd like to provide more information, but the only things I have 
are videos and Java player. Not much to explore. I can upload one small 
(16782 bytes) EV2 clip if somebody is interested to look at it.

Is there any chance to support this? Should I try somebody to hack out 
something out of those Java classes? Or anything else? I'm really out of 
ideas what i can try more. And I don't like to start appletviewer 
everytime I want to see the clips (and I don't want to start X at all).

Dave