[Theora] VFW Codec

[neil morris]

Ralph, Florian

The FFdshow implimentation works quite well BUT it dumps the
encoded video to an AVI format file that only it can decode.
But it's worth looking at, developers site is on Sourceforge.

Neil 

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Ralph Giles wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 01:46:12PM +0100, Florian Geyer wrote:
> 
> > I'm currently writing a real time video conferencing tool for Windows and I
> > want to use the Theora Library for this purpose.
> 
> Cool. What protocol?
> 
> > My questions are:
> > 1.) is there a vfw implementation of theora
> 
> Google turned up this link, but it seems to be a bit experimental:
> 
> http://www.aziendeassociate.it/cd.asp?dir=/ffdshow
> 
> > 2.) if no, can I bundle the VP3 vfw codec that's available from On2's
> > website with my application
> 
> In theory no. However, we have builds from the source after the license
> was changed that you can use. Of course, that would be VP3 and not theora. :)
> 
> Note also that we're working on an RTP payload format for theora. You 
> might be interested in reviewing/contributing/implementing if you're
> working on conferencing stuff.
> 
>   http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/theora/doc/draft-kerr-avt-theora-rtp-00.txt
> 
> HTH,
>  -r
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