[openbeos] Re: Me, Myself, and I
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:03:44 +0100 (MET)
HEY !
Thet wasn't supposed to be sent back to the list !
Maybe you don't care about those NDA stuff, but I do, even if I never saw how
it looked like.
That's also why I'm not part of the media team, not to interfere with what
I shouldn't have anyway. At least until those headers gets open-sourced.
Even using only the prototypes would violate this I think. Not that I won't
like to help, just I can't.
En réponse à Jonathan Tarbox <jtarbox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >About me...
> >
> >I'm the author of NiftyPlayer (on BeBits), and also of a thing called
>
> >FFdecoders (though I didn't released myself, since I'm not supposed to
>
> have
> >what I have to do this :^) and I asked Be for an NDA but I think
> september was
> >already too late to have a chance to get one :-( )
>
> You talking about the private header files? If so, just protype the
> functions you used and be done with it. I really doubt it will matter
>
> as long as the full headers aren't released.
>
> >> OpenDivX en/decoder - This was funny.. I completed my version
> of
> >> this for the beta media player and found that Andreas had just
> released
> >> his version to the beta mailing list. Mine supported multiple
> instances
> >> in the same namespace (MediaPlayer decodes all streams in one
> namespace
> >Maybe you mean "in the same team" ? yeah MediaPlayer opens all
> instances in the
> >same team, as does nplay... I had some problems too with
> FFDecoders...
> >and teh mp3 decoder isn't thread-safe at all :-(
> >hopefully the CFS ffmpeg has a new decoder :)
>
> Didn't matter if it was in the same team, because I encapsulated the
> decoder into a C++ object and thus made a new namespace within the same
>
> team.
>
> >Btw I'd like to see MediaPlayer's source :^)
>
> Don't we all wish for the source.. From what I remember, it was was a
>
> simple app really. It relied heavily upon the media kit features for
> most everything. I never really dug to far into it, other then to
> discover the top-to-bottom/bottom-to-top render flag was passed to the
>
> Mediaplayer, but never implemented in code.. thus I had to flip the
> frames manually in the decoder.
>
> >> and the opendivx libraries use alot of globals that clashed if
> multiple
> >> decodes happened in the same namespace) and Andreas had a nicely
> rolled
> >> out RGB conversion function.. So we talked and I merged them into
> one
> >> project and added overlay support. Several weeks later, little did
>
> I
> >> know, Andreas was hired by Be, least he made it to Palm..
> >> Unfortunately, the opendivx library itself was buggy and had
> problems
> >> encoding certain resolution streams. When I get a chance, I'm
> gonna
> >> check out the latest library and see if it's any better. Can
> someone
> >
> >FFMPEG has an opendivx decoder, which seem to work quite well
>
> The one I did was in late October of '99, never knew of any other
> OpenDivX projects at the time, esp for the beta media_kit
>
> >> from the OBOS media kit team hook me up with some API's for encoding
>
> and
> >> decoding under the new media server?
> >AFAIK, even if I'm not in the media kit team, this part is left for
> now, in the hope that the headers get opened, and that we could use
> them.
> >So we avoid defining any interface for now.
>
> Ok, i'll continue using the same API untill a new one is implemented.
>
> -jtarbox
>
>
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