FreeLists / openbeosmediakit / [openbeosmediakit] Re: 3ivx decoder and Haiku

[Matthew Potts <pottsy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David McPaul wrote:

> Heya,
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> Just thought I would let everyone know I spent some time this weekend 
> porting the 3ivx decoder to the Haiku media kit.
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> It went quite well with only a few adjustments that needed to be made.
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Any plans for xvid too?

- Matt


> The main problem I had was that the new codec code seems to be 
> expecting the avi fourcc to be swapped using B_SWAP_INT32 and this is 
> different to the R5 media kit.
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> Seeking seems to not work correctly but I think that is currently an 
> issue with the extractor not yet implementing seeking yet.
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> Since the 3ivx decoder handles many different MPEG-4 content it clashes 
> with the avcodec and the codec's it registers for.  Are we looking at 
> adding functionality to let the user choose the decoder using some sort 
> of priority or niceness factor?
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> But hey, my 3ivx movies play under Haiku and thats exciting :-)
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> Cheers
> David
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