Jonathan Roewen wrote :

>> Has anyone done anything with video and/or audio processing
>> using ocaml?
>
> Even better: would anyone like to help with an mpeg2 decoder written
> completely in ocaml?
>
> OCaml is supposed to be good at numerical processing right? So I hope
> performance for a 100% software based decoder will be okay...

With OCaml you can't use features like SIMD instructions of CPUs, and  
will do many bound checking, so it will be slower.
I'm a bit sceptical that ocaml may be as good as C for pure signal  
processing.

> My goal is to get something going within one week =P I have no idea if
> it can be done, so we'll see...

Writing a mpeg2 decoder won't take less than a week !!! (except  
perhaps if you've already spent time on a mpeg2 decoder)

If you have to write something, a ocaml wrapper for ffmpeg may be a  
good start.

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