[MPlayer-dev-eng] NuppelVideo

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Wed Dec 26 20:04:39 CET 2001


Hi,

> > BTW: a real-demuxer would be also very good ...
> > look at ffmpeg, it has an open-source demuxer and libavcodec can decode
> > a lot of these also real formats ...
> 
> 	True, writing a Real file format demuxer wouldn't be too hard
> (done it before). But what's this about being able to decode the
> compressed media chunks inside? Last time I checked, there were at least 3
> distinct Real audio codecs and 3 distinct Real video codecs, all
> proprietary, closed-source, binary-only. Are you saying that ffmpeg knows
> how to decode those 6 codecs and has implemented them in open source?

ffmpeg only supports v1 files (they're about v8 now...)
they are simple chunk-based and use a bit modified h263 codec.

but they are really very old files... nobody uses them nowdays.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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