Mpeg 4 Player Hackable??

iwod · 28th November 2003, 22:10

i was wondering if the chipest firmware could be hack to do something like.... working with a Mkv playback filter?

Or someother way which makes Rv9 on Divx player works... ?

Doom9 · 28th November 2003, 23:42

you'd have to be really good in reverse engineering. Most devices use a hardware decoder chip and an ARM chip.. the player software is based around the hardware with only few parts running on the ARM chip itself, making it pretty hard to squeeze new features out of a player.

I'd say: adding Matroska: unlikely, adding RV9: no way. If you want to play everything, you just need a PC and that's not going to change for a while.

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iwod Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 450	Mpeg 4 Player Hackable?? i was wondering if the chipest firmware could be hack to do something like.... working with a Mkv playback filter? Or someother way which makes Rv9 on Divx player works... ?

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Doom9 clueless n00b Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: somewhere over the rainbow Posts: 10,258	you'd have to be really good in reverse engineering. Most devices use a hardware decoder chip and an ARM chip.. the player software is based around the hardware with only few parts running on the ARM chip itself, making it pretty hard to squeeze new features out of a player. I'd say: adding Matroska: unlikely, adding RV9: no way. If you want to play everything, you just need a PC and that's not going to change for a while. __________________ For the web's most comprehensive collection of DVD backup guides go to www.doom9.org

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