[vlc] Re: mpeg4 avc H264 ?

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

On vrijdag, okt 10, 2003, at 08:12 Europe/Amsterdam, Ben Kinealy wrote:
> I am very pleased with your player and would like to release it to our 
> broadband customers on our network for Mpeg 2 transport stream 
> decoding on a PC or Mac, though there are some changes to the 
> interface I would need to make, such as a simple record button on the 
> player for capturing the stream your are watching with out having to 
> go through a 3 to 4 stage set up.

VLC is opensource software and everyone can make changes as long as 
they follow the GPL license under which VLC is released. See also: 
http://www.videolan.org/doc/faq/en/videolan-faq-en.html#AEN170
>
> But apart from that are you going to develop the player to decode the 
> Mpeg 4 AVC H264 codec?
> And is there any hardware that works with your VLC for broadcast STB 
> delivery?

We create a player/streamer application, and generally try to use 
external libraries and projects for the actually decoding of video and 
audio.

as far as i know, we have no modules for STB. a windows directshow 
plugin is being developed at the moment, that possibly might be of help 
with this.

DJ

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Derk-Jan Hartman (thedj at users.sourceforge.net)
Co-Developer of the MacOS X port of vlc
http://www.videolan.org/vlc

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