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Andreas.Raab

[croquet] 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

Conrad Parker

Re: [croquet] MPEG-4 support?

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.

Enno Schwass

Re: [croquet] MPEG-4 support?

In reply to this post by Andreas.Raab

Am 31.10.2006 um 11:16 schrieb Conrad Parker:

> 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.

Does libavcodec support ogg vorbis files (music only)
This topic isnt mentioned for months :(

bye
Enno

Bert Freudenberg

Re: [croquet] MPEG-4 support?

In reply to this post by Andreas.Raab

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 -

Bert Freudenberg

Re: [croquet] MPEG-4 support?

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