Thomas Schüppel wrote:
> Dirk Meyer wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I guess we need some emhancements for mmpython, two things come to my
>>mind:
>>
>>1. better length detection for mpeg. Aubin had a link for a tool, but
>> I couldn't compile it. 2. Support more media types: anyone with
>> python skills and knowledge
>> of wmv, wma and all the other strange formats out there?
>>
>>
>>And last: I added some features in the mmpython cache. The next time I
>>needed more features, I couldn't add it to mmpython because it was too
>>freevo specific. So I moved parts of the mmpython cache into
>>freevo. Freevo doesn't need the cache anymore. Since mmpython is not
>> about caching, I would like to remove it. Thomas: what do you think?
> I'm totally with you there. I never liked the caching inside mmpython
> anyway. :-p
so I will cleanly remove all cache stuff from mmpython the next days.
> Perhaps you should make a list of the formats you like to be added. I
> was quite lazy about development during the last months. I hacked the
> existing formats from documents I found around the net and some source
> code (perl mostly). Collecting these information is the most time
> consuming task.
Let's see:
o wmv and wma like mentioned before
o new formats like matroska and theora
o do we support ogm?
I have none of this on my hd, but I guess it's easy to find some
samples.
> mpeg length can't be computed if the mpeg does have vbr. There is no
> such info in the headers. You can just estimate it's length by
> approximating the bitrate (afaik)
Yes, and that's what we doing right now. Aubin mentioned the tool
mpgtx, maybe that's better. And there is MPEG-TS. IIRC it's mpeg
inside a container with timestamps. Wild idea: last timestamp - first
timestamp?
Dischi
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