DVD plugin

Coops · 14th August 2004, 20:31

Hello!
I'm a real copmputer guru so i thought that it shuold be easy as a DVD-player manufacturer to make a plug in function on dvd players so several video/audio codecs could be installed and made compatible with the player. My question is: Is there any player that can be modifyed to accept other codecs than the standard DVD or SVCD one? Example: Burning a firmware .bin file on a cd, and make the player accept DIVX and other MPEG-4 formats.

kokoon · 16th August 2004, 22:53

Enni74 · 18th August 2004, 11:03

@Coops
I dont think so. Because most (if not all) of the standalone players rely on hardware chips to do at least parts of the decoding process its IMHO not possible to do this. These standalones dont have a "real" multipurpose cpu like a computer.
Maybe someone knows a standalone which has?

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Coops Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 1	DVD plugin Hello! I'm a real copmputer guru so i thought that it shuold be easy as a DVD-player manufacturer to make a plug in function on dvd players so several video/audio codecs could be installed and made compatible with the player. My question is: Is there any player that can be modifyed to accept other codecs than the standard DVD or SVCD one? Example: Burning a firmware .bin file on a cd, and make the player accept DIVX and other MPEG-4 formats. __________________ /DVD N00B

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18th August 2004, 11:03	#3 \| Link
Enni74 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 1	@Coops I dont think so. Because most (if not all) of the standalone players rely on hardware chips to do at least parts of the decoding process its IMHO not possible to do this. These standalones dont have a "real" multipurpose cpu like a computer. Maybe someone knows a standalone which has?