[XviD-devel] Porting Xvid ASM

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 9/14/05, Michael Weiss <mjw at pobox.com> wrote:

> I was wondering if any of you who knew the internals of the Xvid
> codec could comment on what it would be like porting it to another
> OS--VxWorks in this case, still Intel x86 architecture, though.  I
> was particularly wondering about the parts that are written in
> assembly language.  Are these just optimized versions of algorithms
> or do they make calls into the kernel, which would pose a big problem
> because I'd be switching kernels.  Sorry for all of the questions,
> but I am trying to establish ASAP whether what I am trying to do is
> actually feasible.

Though I never wrote or contributed any code to XviD, I'm pretty
confident that there are no hard coded calls to the kernel, as the
same code compiles and works under Windows, Linux, *BSD, probably
MacOSX...

Best regards,

Guillaume
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