Vdubmod for MCF

Hi folks, hi Cyrius,

please allow me to point you here :

http://mcf.sourceforge.net/docbook/spec.html

Its Steve's latest version of the specs docs, but content should be
unchanged compared to the old specs made by Lasse.

I am not sure if the current libmcf is capable to be implemented into
Vdubmod yet. Steve created tools called

mpa2mcf.exe    and
wav2mcf.exe

based on existing libmcf, and myFUN was using the same library to make his
Dshow parser. Currently there are no COM interfaces working in the parser as
libmcf doesnt report file length/duration properly. Spyder, on the contrary,
was not using libmcf for his MCF4JAVA, but redid the complete old MCF specs
in pure Java, so we have a brilliant test platform to x-check the two
implementations.

It seems that the API to read/write data from/to libmcf wont change, or not
much, this is why we decided to make and test first tools based on current
version of libmcf, but i am not sure if it could be used from an editing app
like Vdub, even just as an early alpha version to be able to test files.

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.

Thanks again for your interest in supporting MCF and UCI .... i am convinced
we can lay an important foundation for the future of opensource video and
audio encoding !
--
Christian

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