Codec Tool development

[bayareaboy]

Hi,
I am trying to develop tool which can decode different clips like avc,vc1, and so on and display all the information about the clips. Important thing is tool should be flexible since if it currently supports 3 codecs if in future more codecs like vp8 comes we should be able to add it. One of the ways is to develop tool through visual studio in gui and backend in any coded language. Any other ideas what might be the other better ideas.

Regards Bayareaboy:script:

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I am trying to develop tool which can decode different clips like avc,vc1, and so on and display all the information about the clips.

Unless your plan is to build this "tool" on top of FFmpeg (libavcodec/libavformat) and/or (Lib)MediaInfo, this sounds like you want to re-invent the wheel ;)

[Selur]

I agree with LordMulder, better write a small gui using mediaInfo to analyse and mplayer/ffplay for playback and then help out on other projects. :)
Only think mediainfo can't identify properly analyse are raw streams where you need to scan the whole file to get i.e. frame count, but counting the start codes of frames shouldn't be hard. (wrote some code for Hybrid for mpeg-4 asp/avc and vc-1 some time back)

Cu Selur