[openbeosmediakit] Re: 3ivx decoder and Haiku
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeosmediakit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 00:08:53 +0200 CEST
Marcus Overhagen <marcusoverhagen@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > We planed to allow the user to configure which codec is chosen
> > > for
> > > a particular format (from a list of codecs that support the
> > > format),
> > > but nobody implemented it.
> > I remember that much, yes, but I don't remember how the initial
> > (unconfigured) list is built - first in first rules?
> I don't know. Didn't you write that code?
Hehe :)
> However, I'm pretty sure that the configuration file is not used at
> all.
> Only the data published by the codecs does matter right now.
Exactly, I meant to ask how it was supposed to be, not how it actually
is at the moment :)
> > > > But some sort of priority expressed by the codec would be great
> > > > anyway.
> > > I don't think this is a good idea.
> > As an initial hint, why not? As a codec writer, I should have a
> > good
> > idea about how good my codec is at parsing a certain stream?!
> It adds complexity. Each codec would have to publish for each format
> a confidence or priority level. I don't think that adding all this
> does bode
> well.
It doesn't add that much complexity, but I don't think we should do it
for R1 if that would require any public API changes.
Bye,
Axel.
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