Just saw the dev section was up, wanted to contribute on the Media Kit, others to come : (not all might be relevant enough) (although the best option is to use ffmpeg for the codecs, I'm not sure the file muxers/demuxers will evolve enough to be used in the Media Kit, so we should maybe write our own file parsers... I wrote the (unfinished) current ffmpeg .mov demuxer) (anyway I have specific plans on the Media Kit...) http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~bilco/MMIS-essay.html http://www.moviecodec.com/codecdownload/ http://abmefaq.net/codec.html MPEG4 http://www.mpeg-4.philips.com/ http://www.mpeg-4.philips.com/technology/links.asp http://mpeg.telecomitalialab.com/faq.htm MPEG FAQs http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/14496-5_Compressed_directories/Systems/ http://mpeg.telecomitalialab.com/ http://mpeg.telecomitalialab.com/working_documents.htm http://www.m4if.org/ ASF http://avifile.sourceforge.net/asf0298rtf.htm http://avifile.sourceforge.net/asf-1.0.htm AVI http://www.jmcgowan.com/avi.html http://doc.ddart.net/msdn/header/include/vfw.h.html (VFW.H) http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/shailen/ MOV http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/ladic/qtime.html http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/quicktime/qtdevdocs/PDF/QTFileFormat.pdf http://www.geocities.com/xhelmboyx/quicktime/formats/qtm-layout.txt FLI http://www.codehead.f2s.com/coding/fli.html http://crusty.er.usgs.gov/flc.html http://www-igte.tu-graz.ac.at/research/ca/cefc94/flcforma.htm FLI test files: http://bhs.broo.k12.wv.us/pub/ibm/MegaGames3/GRAPHICS/ANIMS/ VOC http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/2160/fformats/files/voc.txt AU http://www.opengroup.org/public/pubs/external/auformat.html http://www.goice.co.jp/member/mo/formats/au.html MP3 http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/ AAC http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/aac.html AC3 http://www.mp3-tech.org/programmer/decoding.html http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/ ADPCM http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/8682/aud3.txt GIF http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/2d/GIF89a.txt http://www.msg.net/utility/whirlgif/gifencod.html image formats http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/2d-hi.html file formats http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/2160/fformats/fformats.htm http://www.wotsit.org/ http://www.goice.co.jp/member/mo/formats/ Audio test files: http://esewww.essex.ac.uk/~djmrob/filetypes.html http://mcf.sourceforge.net/ MCF file format http://math.berkeley.edu/~benrg/huffyuv.html Huffman codec http://ff123.net/ discussions on audio compression http://www.doom9.org/codecs.htm http://membres.lycos.fr/benoitluttringer/index.html http://mplayer.dev.hu/homepage/ http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~djmrob/mp3decoders/index.html http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-vcdimager/2001-September/000242.html http://www.audiocoding.com/ http://webartz.com/fourcc/ 4CC list http://sdp.ppona.com/ mms streaming http://www.mp3-tech.org/mainpage.html