While librempeg does its awesome stuff, I’ve finally started working on na_eofdec, a new tool for decoding exotic/obscure formats (hence the name). It is intended to decode fringe formats I find interesting enough to write a decoder but not useful enough to be included into main NihAV (maybe I’ll move some formats from there to this tool as I did previously with some game formats and na_game_tool).
And while it is based on na_game_tool and will keep its interface, there’s one major technical difference under the hood: while game formats are expected to produce constant rate content (always the same number of frames per second and audio blocks of equal size), these formats are allowed to have variable framerate and audio block length. Currently it affects only AVI writer (which I modified to have synchronisation, frame duplication and splitting audio input into blocks of equal length) but in the future I hope to write a MOV muxer to handle such inputs natively.
Of course such tool is useless without decoders, so I’ve added a pair of them for Lantern MOV formats. These are a pair of RLE-based animation formats using IFF or RIFF structure (little-endian in either case). There are more candidates out there, like all those IFF-based formats. As usual, the first release will happen when I implement at least a dozen of original decoders, so it will take a while.
So many cool new projects active recently, almost getting lost in so big amount of them.
That’s good, it means there’s less you have to do yourself.