[XviD-devel] Link xvid.dll dynamically from VirtualdubMod, using dev-API 4 ??

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On Wed, 14 May 2003 23:37:43 +0200 Christian HJ Wiesner <chris at matroska.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> sorry for the stupid question, but is this possible in principal ? It 
> seems that UCI as new, open standard codec API is dead, there hasnt been 
> any progress on this project since months it seems, so i was wondering 
> if the new dev API4 could be used to write OGM or matroska files from 

yes, its possible. though, i would wait until dev-api-4 is merged into head,
when the api becomes set in stone.

> VirtualdubMod, without using the VfW interface with all its nasty 
> limitations ? Could we maybe use the interlacing features better this way ?

iam well aware of the encoder/decoder lag limitation, but otherwise imho
vfw is sufficient. chris, do you have a list of this the codec api
should support, such as interlacing or aspect ratio? 

iam planning to restart my vfwext project, which adds aditional (but
backwards compat) functionality to vfw. whilst this is not a perfect
solution, it is acheivable. i think uci was too optimisitic; developing
a generic audio/video api, discovery frame work and configuration
enumeration, is a lot of work... then again, ffmpeg does this reasonably
well.

-- pete