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LambdaCalculus:
One idea I've been kicking around for a while is adding support for an additional video codec into Rockbox. In this case, I'm thinking about Theora (part of the Ogg container format).

Stop in and discuss. Theora is open and royalty-free, included with many other projects (including ffmpeg, VLC, and others), and is licensed under a BSD-style license.

For those interested, here's a link to the current SVN trunk of libtheora:

http://www.theora.org/svn/

GodEater:
To save me from having to do a lot of reading, is there any indication of how good this is for an embedded target? Is it nicely fixed point for example ?

gevaerts:
I think that if we add another codec, we need to think about an audio-codec like architecture (i.e. one player, multiple codecs).

I personally would like to see more intergration of video playing in the "normal" playback system, so you can e.g. have video files in a playlist

(sorry for trying to turn this into a more general video features thread)

LambdaCalculus:

--- Quote from: gevaerts on July 08, 2008, 09:55:55 AM ---I think that if we add another codec, we need to think about an audio-codec like architecture (i.e. one player, multiple codecs).

I personally would like to see more intergration of video playing in the "normal" playback system, so you can e.g. have video files in a playlist

--- End quote ---

I think that's been brought up a few times before, actually. I wonder if adding another video codec will give us all an excuse to rearrange the architecture for video playback...

pondlife:
I'd suggest that the existing audio buffering could be used for video, and a new codec system written for both audio and video.... if we want to integrate.

pondlife

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