Hi All, While madplay does a good job of playing MP3s, I haven't been able to get mpeg_play working yet. (It just displays a blank screen and does nothing, killing it gives no messages either)
There are large number of other A/V formats out there, which are conventionally played, in form on another, via the ffmpeg library on Linux/BSD machines. Looking at the 9fans archives it seems like there was some effort to port it, but I can't find any code. Also, the SDL/madplay/mpeg_play ports are all based on APE (for obvious reasons), but APE always seems like a sub-optimal solution as far as Plan 9 is concerned. How difficult would it be to develop a native Plan 9 library for A/V decoding? Note that most A/V libraries out there make extensive use of inline assembly, how would that fit in with "The Plan 9 way"? Hints would be helpful. Cheers, -- Anant
