Re: Hello & first question

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 11:55:53PM -0600, Preston Lord wrote:
> I dont think this list is being maintained any longer as none of the
> questions are getting replies :( ...

Well - sometimes I forget to send answer.

> I asked a question a week ago after joining and have seen 3 or 4
> questions since .. all have gone un-answered.

Oh I'll try it now.

> > It already works using raw I420 video, but there the story ends (for now?). 
> > The other codecs I would like to use are:
> > * raw RGB
> > * raw Y800
> > * huffyuv
> > * LCL

Idealy you should put somewhere short avi samples so I can download them
and fix player myself.

> > My problems are:
> > 1) For raw RGB, I don't know what fourcc I should use,

This is a little bit complicated and depends on the colorspace.
See the header  formats.h  for more detailed explanation.
Basicaly FourCC is either 0 or 3 - more in the header file
in avifile include directory.


> > 
> > 2) For Y800, if I try to make a CImage of the data, I get an error: <CImage> : 
> > Cannot convert to 24 bit image from unimplemented Y800  0x30303859
> > If Y800 is really unimplemented, It shouldn't be much work to add it, right? 
> > I'm willing to make that change myself.

Yes it should be simple - see the conversion code in
lib/common/image.cpp

Basicaly Y800 should be monochrome format so you should just need to add
some reasonable defaults to UV planes.


> > 3) For huffyuv and LCL, the codecs are not found. I downloaded the DLLs and 
> > put them in /usr/lib/win32, but no use. The codec keeper also keeps saying "6 

Huffyuv should be playbel; either with Win32 codec or with ffmpeg
decoder. If you are using CVS version and the movies is not played 
properly it's a bug and you should try to create small file
and send me link to this file for download.

Also check if ffplay or mplayer playes the file properly.


> > plugins found", shouldn't that number increase after I add the DLL?

It's just one plugin for Win32 dlls - but eventually I may try to
add some extra debug messages to show how many dll are located
recognized or missed - if I'll not forget about that....

> > PS: I'm using Debian/Sid
> > PPS: The latest news on the project page dates back to last year, I hope it 
> > isn't dead?

Not realy dead - but not that active either - I'm being kept permanently
busy with other tasks for quite some time.
But at least CVS version is kept updated and from time to time
some new missed features are added - lately substitle are a little
bit better displayed so it will try to fit them better.

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