Nicolas Souchu wrote: > Jason, MeBox looked very promising. This is unfortunate that the mplayer idea > didn't succeed because I really like the it.
It's ok, because what we ended up with was much better, and much more flexible. The main limitation of using mplayer-as-a-platform is mplayer itself: lack of DVD menus, no good deinterlacers/pulldown suitable for realtime viewing, and its inability to adjust the filter chain dynamically prevented some important features like being able to go from a fullscreen video to the menus with the video playing in a thumbnail. The prototype Chandan Pitta did (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4w9fkXYjOk) would not be possible using my original mplayer idea for MeBox. The architecture we have now allows for all this. You can take a running video and add it to a canvas and apply any effects you can apply to any other canvas object, including color filters, transparency, animation, etc. And because we're not tied inextricably to a given player, we can support (and in fact tend to prefer) Xine, because of its superior deinterlacers/pullup support and DVD menus, audio visualization, etc. Cheers, Jason. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
