FW: videolan - os/x

[Christophe Massiot]

À (At) 19:55 +0200 21/04/01, Boris Dores écrivait (wrote) :

>1) which ofthe videolan team worked on the osx port?  ... speciically the
>quartz and altivec elements?

Colin Delacroix, Eugenio Jarosiewicz, Samuel Hocevar, and myself.

>2) is this a unix app with an mac front end? ... a carbon app? ... a MACH-O
>app? a cocoa app?

It is originally a UNIX app. We wrote a CoreAudio plugin and a DVD 
kernel extension. For the video we use Carbon (better documentation).

>3) will the mac/win team integrate videolan into the quicktime architecture

Apparently it is the only way to get YUV overlay support. However 
Apple doesn't really help.

>(even if just at the codev level ... i refer to quicktime because it is the
>official format for mpeg4).

This has nothing to do with it. VLC is an MPEG-1/2 decoder, not MPEG-4.

>OS/X Rocks!

Well, since you mention it, OS/X may have rocked, but unfornately a 
lot of APIs are completely non-standard without any reason, and it is 
very poorly documented. The OS/X team has had a lot of trouble for 
porting VLC. Apple confirms its reputation. As a developer, I have to 
warn against using it, until documentation becomes *decent*.


-- 
Christophe Massiot.