AW: Re: Suiryc's MCF Mod for VirtualDub

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Please register on the forum and send me a short description of your video
encoding background ( i noticed you are using OGM already ) and your
interest in MCF.

Christian

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> Gesendet: Montag, 18. November 2002 18:19
> An: ChristianHJW
> Betreff: Re: [Virtualdubmod-devel] Re: Suiryc's MCF Mod for VirtualDub
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ChristianHJW" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 11:44 AM
> Subject: [Virtualdubmod-devel] Re: Suiryc's MCF Mod for VirtualDub
>
>
> >
> > "Steve Lhomme" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > | En réponse à John Cannon <[email protected]>:
> > |
> > | > Really good news, I tested Suiryc's MCF Mod for Vdub. It does exist
> and
> > | > is
> > | > working. It generates spec compliant files via the current
> libMCF and
> > | > works
> > | > rather well I would say. I took the output and dumped it
> using my MCF
> > | > analyzer, everything looks good there. I then went in with a hex
> editor
> > | > and
> > | > set the format string to "XVID" to match my demuxer's
> requirements. I
> > | > opened
> > | > the file in JMStudio and viola! It plays.
> > | >
> > | > Good job Suiryc.
> > |
> > | This is a very good news !That means once the specs are ready
> and libmcf
> > | compliant with these specs for most basic functions, I can
> *finally* mux
> > my
> > | videos in MCF ! And maybe capture to MCF too. Which is exactly what I
> want
> > to do.
> >
> > Yup !!
> >
> > | But it's a bad news too.
> > | I don't know if VDubMod is already popular or not, but I
> assume it will
> be
> > | pretty soon. And it should advise users that when they use the MCF
> > feature, it's
> > | experimental and will surely *not* play in MCF players when the format
> > will be
> > | ready. I don't want people to be frustrated because they created MCF
> that
> > wasn't
> > | really MCF. So I suggest it is only available when the user
> acknowledge
> > this
> > | information, or something similar. Is it possible ?
> >
> > Dont worry Steve, Suiryc opened another dev branch on CVS for this mod,
> > there will be no MCF support in the released version of VirtualDubMod
> until
> > MCF-1 specs are final and libmcf updated.
> >
> > Read here : http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.vdubmod.devel/6
> >
> > "ChristianHJW wrote : One important thing : If you are successful in
> > creating such an alpha
> > version, please dont distribute the binaries ! Leave the code
> in the CVS (
> > for devs that can compile themselves its ok with me ), but dont give the
> > binaries to users, by no means !! There will be huge changes in libmcf
> > itself, so even if we can create tools with current libmcf as
> the API wont
> > change much, the files created with this libmcf will be completely
> > incompatible to MCF-1 spec files !! We can think of giving it
> to a limited
> > number of alpha testers though, to test it."
> >
> > To my knowledge he even didnt upload the sourcecode for this mod to CVS
> yet,
> > but even if he does only devs will be able to compile themselfes and use
> it,
> > and they could do the same with mpa2mcf.exe and start spreading
> ( wrong )
> > MCF files, and nobody has done so far ( devs know its no good thing to
> do ).
>
> Well, I'd like to try MCF converter (after played enough with
> OGM), but I'm
> not very experienced at using compiling tools. So could someone of you
> please send me a CVS build? =)
>
>



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