Older blog entries for aaron (starting at number 1)

I finally finished up the libvo changes today and checked it in. Unfortunately, I still have a large pile of patches to process still. I also got a chance to chat with walken again about the a/v scheduler. Amazingly, we almost agree on how its going to work. I've set a goal to try and get a release out by the time OLS hits.

Anyone out there know where I can find docs (offical or not) on the .asf (active streaming) file format?

It seems that everyone+dog is going to work at Zero Knowledge Systems. It seems like a very cool company. I think I would like to be an Evil Genius (tm). There's something appealing about being paid to think about abstract math all day.

Things are progressing well on the DVD front. I've managed to tweak my MPEG-2 codec to the point where realtime playback is possible on a pII-450 (ish). I have plans to bring this down to the pII-300 level sometime soon. Our major stumbling block now is dealing with the somewhat broken sync mechanisms of the MPEG-2 systems standard (which were further mutated by the DVD folks). Most of the problems stem from the painful 3:2 pulldown mechanism and the fact that the timestamps in a DVD stream aren't contiguous.

Hopefully if all goes well, you'll see a full fanfare alpha release in a month or so (famous last words).

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