Re: 3ivx decoder and Haiku

David McPaul wrote:

>Heya,
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>Just thought I would let everyone know I spent some time this weekend 
>porting the 3ivx decoder to the Haiku media kit.
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>It went quite well with only a few adjustments that needed to be made.
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Any plans for xvid too?

- Matt


>The main problem I had was that the new codec code seems to be 
>expecting the avi fourcc to be swapped using B_SWAP_INT32 and this is 
>different to the R5 media kit.
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>Seeking seems to not work correctly but I think that is currently an 
>issue with the extractor not yet implementing seeking yet.
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>Since the 3ivx decoder handles many different MPEG-4 content it clashes 
>with the avcodec and the codec's it registers for.  Are we looking at 
>adding functionality to let the user choose the decoder using some sort 
>of priority or niceness factor?
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>But hey, my 3ivx movies play under Haiku and thats exciting :-)
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>Cheers
>David
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