[Flac-dev] Re: UCI Project Announcement

Josh Coalson
Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:45:37 -0000

--- ChristianHJW <christianhjw@users.sourceforge.net>
wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> please allow me to raise the subject again. Anybody had the time to
> check
> http://uci.sf.net yet ?
>
> The MCF team meanwhile has decided to use UCI as the only codec
> interface to
> libmcf, at least for native MCF streams. There was also interest from
> the
> XviD team to use UCI, at least in addition to the currently existing
> VfW
> interface. A mplayer wrapper for UCI seems feasible and the OpenBeOS
> mediakit people show big interest to make UCI the new codec API for
> their
> opensource implementation of BeOS. Good input to UCI came from
> gstreamer
> people, especially Erik Walthinsen, its founder, and Thomas van der
> Stichelen.
>
> Could you consider to add a UCI interface to your codec ? IMHO we
> have a
> good chance to get some level of standardization in the opensource
> media
> world, we shouldnt miss it.

I haven't investigated UCI yet and even then I really don't
have time to do an implementation.  But, as of flac 1.0.4,
there is a new library libOggFLAC which would probably be a
good model for what you want to do, and the whole API has
Doxygen-based docs (see http://flac.sf.net/api/index.html).
libOggFLAC basically wraps the libFLAC encoders and decoders
so that FLAC frames go into Ogg packets.  Someone who knows
UCI well could probably create a libUCIFLAC based on this code
pretty easily.

Josh


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