Re: On2's VP5

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Ian Farquhar wrote:

> Never heard of the Java Media Framework then?
>
> http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/index.jsp
>
> I used it extensively when at Sun, but only as an end-user.  It's codec
> support was surprisingly good.

	As Michael N. pointed out, support is probably limited to the
stuff that is "open" in the first place (for which we already have open
source support).

> Bear in mind that a lot of ISV's obfuscate their Java bytecode quite
> heavily, to avoid reverse engineering.  In those cases it is typically
> _very_ hard to RE the source.  There are a number of free and commercial

	Still, from a cursory review, this Java obfuscation is *nothing*
compared to reverse engineering C/C++ code compiled & optimized into
machine opcodes. Seriously, RE'ing this obfuscated Java reminds me of
solving a substitution-cipher cryptogram. All of the algorithmic logic
appears to be right there in the code. The only trick to understanding the
algorithm is to recover the identifier strings.

--
	-Mike Melanson


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