[openbeos] Re: decoder config options

Old thread, sorry.

Urias McCullough wrote:

On 07/02/2008, David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Does anyone have any suggestions about the best way for a decoder to
read user settable options?

Currently I have this on my todo
//  TODO We should have an option to control this for users that want
to use other decoders for DIV/XVID
//      uint32 decodewhat = (DIV3) | (DIV4<<1) | (DIV5<<2) | (XVID<<3) | 
(OTHER<<4);
        uint32 decodewhat = (true) | (true<<1) | (true<<2) | (true<<3) | 
(false<<4);

It would be nice to make this user selectable.

I was thinking of just a file in config/settings/3ivx.decoder or something.


At the expense of sounding extremely uninformed (I don't honestly know
the inner workings of BeOS/Haiku's media kit and how decoders are
chosen and loaded) - should the decision of whether a decoder
will/won't handle a specific format be the responsibility of the
decoder itself?

Shouldn't the decoder simply state what it's capable of decoding, and
then, if several exist for a certain codec, the user decides which
will be used?
Or even better the decoder gives itself a score as to how well it decodes each codec, and the media-kit chooses the highest.
I think it's such a minority features to allow users to choose decoders that I would be against making it any more visible to the user than as a settings file, if it is necessary at all.

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