[XviD-devel] Re: DivX5 compatibe API

[suxen_drol]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 00:43:18 +0100 Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr> wrote:

> Christoph Lampert (chl at math.uni-bonn.de) wrote:
> > I was referring to divx4linux501-20020418.tgz (DivX5.01 "basic version"). 
> > 
> > It contains decore.h and encore2.h which are more or less documented.
> > There is an EXTENSIONS structure with fields for MPEG-quant, QPel, GMC,
> > interlace, etc..
> > 
> > Of course, they have no effect in the "basic" version, so they are useless
> > for DivX5, but they would not be for XVID. 
> > 
> > Current xvid has "divx4.h" which is compatible to old DivX4Linux (or at
> > least used to be). 
> > 
> 
> Is it worth doing that ? I'm  not sure whether a program or not supports
> DivX pro  features as it has  never been released for  linux ia32. DivX5
> pro compatible programs support only the basic part of the API afaik.
> 
> In other words,  why trying to be compatible with  something that is not
> used ?

i agree; and also think we should dump the divx4/opendivx api wrapper
with 1.0.0 ("whenever").

-- pete; life is like a box of ammo