[SDL] Re: sdl & mpeg3

[Bill May]

cabieces julien wrote:
> hi, 
> 
> thanks answer me ! 
> 
> 
> I haven't the choice of the mpeg library. I don't write a player to fun
> myself but for high school project. The aim of this player is to "index"
> videos (thanks to xml files) to test different image treatment
> algorithm.   
> I wrote it for a french research institute call IRIT (Toulouse). 
> 
> I have seen there was two output enable RGB and YUV and I have thought
> the RGB was the easier to use. There is no documentation on the libmpeg3
> project and they don't describe the structure of the RGB output. So, I
> am on the point to change my mind and choose the YUV output but can you
> say me how I can display an image with SDL with a YUV image (or RGB). Is
> it possible to have the choice of the format (I have seen it does ) and
> how I can. 

Look at the various SDL documentation on YUV overlays.  Or 
mpeg4ip/util/yuv/yuvdump.cpp shows how to do it.


> Is SDL the better way to display my videos or is there better.  
> 
> thanks for all and sorry to murder the english tongue as I do. 
> 
> 
> Cabieces Julien
> 
> Le mer 24/11/2004 à 07:27, Bill May a écrit :
> 
>>The output is YUV - use the YUV overlays functions.  If you
>>want a working player, use my mpeg4ip project, or ffmpeg, or
>>mplayer or VLC.
>>
>>cabieces julien wrote:
>>
>>>hi !! 
>>>
>>>Please, excuse me for my english but I'm french student. 
>>>
>>>I try to write a mpeg player with some different properties and I don't
>>>manage to see how I can display my mpeg video after decode it. 
>>>
>>>Indeed, my function mpeg_read return a matrix containing unsigned char
>>>(8 bit), so, I don't understand, first how It can have the 3 components
>>>RGB on 8 bits and second how I have to do to display this matrix with
>>>SDL. 
>>>
>>>Please, I know this is more a question for mpeg developpers but I
>>>haven't found great documentation or web sites on this subject. 
>>>
>>>Thanks for advance. 
>>>
>>>trOOpa  
>>
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