On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:28:19PM +0100, Markus Gustavsson wrote:
>
> 1) There are so many different codecs for both video and audio, but I've not been
> able to find README's or docs saying the differences between them. Today when
> I updated the CVS again a new "mad" audioencoder plugin was added, it works perfect
> but still it's impossible to know the difference in encodingfeatures/prestanda
Well it takes to much time to write uptodate docs -
e.g. to pick the best DivX decoder might be very subjective - someone
wants the speed, other like colors from DivX4 and many other things.
Once there will be nothing better to do I might try to write few
lines myself - but until this time user is supposed to play some games
to choose what is the best for him...
> between this encoder and the elder LayerIII audio plugin. Both works so which one
MAD should be able to play any MP3 file - but it is the slowest one
the other two are faster but have some problems with some files...
> the same thing, so one know what plugin to use for maximum quality, or chose another
> plugin if one has a slower box?
Well if you have time and you want to keep this table up-to-date - go ahead...
> 2) One thing I don't understand is what the "Audio Resampling" feature in the players
> frontend/GUI does, I've found some movies that goes out of sync in audio/video unless
> I enable 44.000 reampling (that took me quite some time to find out), but what is it
> these controls/options actually do to the sound?
To activate resabling - turn on enable
Then you may select desired resampling frequency and also playing rate
(thus you could resample to 22KHz and play it with 32KHz - which
will play the movie faster - this is rather toy-feature but
some user have only 48KHz capable audio cards so they might use
this in this way - resample to 48KHz and set playing rate to 48KHz...
> 3) Docs!! I know from own experience how annoying it is receiving mails asking for
> tons of things, especially things that are boring to write/produce, but this project
> really does need more docs.. See it this way, the player has simply great features
In the first place this project needs more developers...
As I said I couldn't do everything myself...
> that people might not even find out about unless they're mentioned in a
>documentation!
If some feature could not be found by simple click search or is not
clear enough - I'd like to know about it - as this means that something
is wrong - I believe that if the userinterface is being made in the right
way no docs should be needed...
> found out about the posibility to drag encoders/codecs under Config->Decoder!
Well this part is rather unfinished and will be redisigned completely
once there will be enough time for this...
> achive this effect and it's been in the player all the time! It would be so great
> for me and others if the player got a real user documentation describing it's
>features!
>
Well it would be great if someone would take care about this - I may
modify and repair some part if I will notice they are wrong but
it's really hard to write Doc and program at the same time.
> 4) The avibench binary just keeps segfaulting for me when I run it with any of the
it's most probably buggy then and this problem should be reported -
however as for now CVS is in real 'developmental' stage for now :)
I guess it makes no sence to fix this bug now.
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