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 ).


Regards

Christian





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