[MPlayer-dev-eng] Opensource divx4!

[Vladimir Kushnir]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Arpi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Hi all,
> > If anybody's interested (and knows more than me) please take a look at
> > http://www.videocoding.de
> > They continue development of opendovx project where ProjectMauo left it.
> > The decore lib doesn't seem to be changed much (mplayer
> > recognizes it as divx4 and I can use this as such but it isn't
> > optimized) but with their encore2 library I can at least compile and ryn
> > mencoder under FreeBSD (after some minor tweaking). So now I can
> > recompress some of my old VCDs into divx4. BTW, mencoder's doing beter job
> > at recompression than everything else I tried - thanks, A'rpi!
>
> hmm. what about some patches for mencoder?
> i mean that minor fixes.
>
> or they are for the decoder lib to get compile on bsd?
>

Yes, they were for (de/en)coder libs - and they were really minor (like
malloc.h -> stdlib.h and so on), mencoder compiles fine. Actually, the
only thing to change in mplayer itself is to check for libopendivx_encore2.so
and libdivxdecore.so (that's what they call these libs). As far as those libs
are concerned - well, as I said encore2 works fine (in some sence even better
than divx4linux's, as far as I'm concerned - it seems to give better
compression at least), but decore isn't as good here.
Unfortunately, I'm not all that much of a programmer to fix it myself.

Regards,
Vladimir

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Vladimir Kushnir - vkushnir at Alfacom.net