[vlc-devel] v210 codec support

[Ramiro Polla]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <rem at videolan.org> wrote:
> Le mardi 3 février 2009 22:27:08 Craig Perras, vous avez écrit :
>> is anyone working on adding v210 codec support to vlc (eg: 10-bit YCbCr
>> via blackmagic hd-sdi cards) to vlc?
>
> Nobody ever claimed so.
>
>> i might be interested in contributing
>> if someone could help me get started (i have 10+ years in c/c++
>> development, but i'm pretty new to av codecs).
>
> If this is raw video, it probably should not be implemented as a codec, but
> rather as a chroma conversion.

This has been discussed on this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/54195

in the FFmpeg devel mailing list. But then apparently the guy who was
working on it gave up. If you add support for it for libswscale, VLC
can make use of it.

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Ramiro Polla