Re: Questions on video related multimedia standards

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Hi,

Thanks for the response and updates on the wiki :)

> > 2. Do we have any video codec standards ? Where they are put, what
> >    kind of interfaces they provide. Or are they independent of the
> >    encoder/decoder?  (ffmpeg?)
> 
> Each framework (mplayer, xine, vlc, gstreamer) has its own codec system.
> A codec such as theora is implemented as its own library (libtheora),
> which is then wrapped up by each of the multimedia frameworks.
> 
> MPlayer (from upstream) usually expects to find win32 codec DLLs in
> /usr/local/lib/codecs.

This probably warrants some documentation and fixing, and cooperation
between several packages.  I suppose mplayer isn't the only one which
can use win32 codecs?

regards,
	junichi
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