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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:19:59 -0700
From: Roman Shaposhnick <rvs@sun.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Multimedia on Plan 9
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 23:49 +0530, Anant Narayanan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> While madplay does a good job of playing MP3s, I haven't been able to
> get mpeg_play working yet. (It just displays a blank screen and does
> nothing, killing it gives no messages either)
>
> There are large number of other A/V formats out there, which are
> conventionally played, in form on another, via the ffmpeg library on
> Linux/BSD machines. Looking at the 9fans archives it seems like there
> was some effort to port it, but I can't find any code.

  It is on my TODO list.

> Also, the SDL/madplay/mpeg_play ports are all based on APE (for obvious
> reasons), but APE always seems like a sub-optimal solution as far as
> Plan 9 is concerned. How difficult would it be to develop a native Plan
> 9 library for A/V decoding? Note that most A/V libraries out there make
> extensive use of inline assembly, how would that fit in with "The Plan 9
> way"?

  FFmpeg can be easily configured in a way that #ifdefs out all of the
GNUisms. But you pay a hefty price in performance for that.

Thanks,
Roman.