[openbeosmediakit] Re: 3ivx decoder and Haiku
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeosmediakit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:35:30 +0200 CEST
"Andrew Bachmann" <shatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Marcus Overhagen <marcusoverhagen@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 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.
> I agree with Marcus. In fact, I would go farther and say that the
> "right"
> way to handle codec capability reporting would have to supply the
> stream itself to the codec. It's unreasonable to expect that the
> extractor
> would be able to fully characterize the stream in all possibly
> relevant
> ways. This would require some restructuring and is not necessary for
> R1.
Yes, I think this makes some sense. But the codec should only be able
to deny the request then; it shouldn't be necessary to ask all codecs
for proper support in that case.
Bye,
Axel.
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