MPEG-4 support?

Hi -

Brief question: If one would want to integrate MPEG-4 in Croquet/Squeak
what would good options look like? Any ideas about available libraries,
pain of interfacing those, etc? In the best of all worlds an open source
solution would of course be preferable but it would be useful to know
and evaluate other alternatives, too.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 06:04:17PM -0800, Andreas Raab wrote:
> Hi -
>
> Brief question: If one would want to integrate MPEG-4 in Croquet/Squeak
> what would good options look like? Any ideas about available libraries,
> pain of interfacing those, etc? In the best of all worlds an open source
> solution would of course be preferable but it would be useful to know
> and evaluate other alternatives, too.

You would integrate libavcodec. The source is LGPL, and as with any
MPEG-4 implementation all users would need a patent license.

Better to go with the patent-free and MIT licensed Theora codec.
libtheora and associated tools are available for all platforms from
www.xiph.org.

cheers,

Conrad.

Am 30.10.2006 um 19:04 schrieb Andreas Raab:

> Hi -
>
> Brief question: If one would want to integrate MPEG-4 in Croquet/
> Squeak what would good options look like? Any ideas about available  
> libraries, pain of interfacing those, etc? In the best of all  
> worlds an open source solution would of course be preferable but it  
> would be useful to know and evaluate other alternatives, too.

In Sophie they have Quicktime support via FFI. Mac/Win only I guess.

- Bert -