[MPlayer-dev-eng] NuppelVideo

[Johannes Feigl]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:04:39PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> > > 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.

well, don't say somethink like that ... you don't know my video
collection ;-)

RealEncoder 8.0 also use these G2 ... like 6.0.
But look at freshmeat, there is also a linux-decoder for it, but I don't
know a lot about ...

mfg Johannes