[haiku-development] Re: ATI Video Driver Source Code

  • From: Cian Duffy <myob87@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 20:00:40 +0100

2009/6/5 Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>:
> Rene Gollent schrieb:
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Gerald Zajac<zajacg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Does the Media Player use overlays?  Under BeOS & Zeta using the
>>> BeOS/Zeta
>>> version of the ATI driver, I can play the Memorial Day movies that came
>>> with
>>> BeOS R5.0;  but under Haiku these movies do not play using the Haiku
>>> Media
>>> Player.  I believe that these movies are AVI format.
>>
>> Those movies are encoded with Indeo if I remember right, I don't think
>> we can handle that codec at the moment.
>
> IIRC, ffmpeg should have support for that, we probably just need to enable
> it in the hard coded "codec table" in our wrapper.

The files distributed with BeOS are encoded in Indeo 5, only supported
by binary decoders on Win/Mac/BeOS and not anything open source. XAnim
had binary decoders back in the day on some systems but they don't
work anymore anyway.

Cian

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