PBO software and VC 1 interlaced = Video playback On linux distros?

[add1kt]

There is no mass produced library for linux that can handle VC1 interlaced video (or is there?). FFMPEG maintainers have had this in their todo list for 3+ years, and it is slowly climbing to the top of the list.

Patriot Box Office, a simple media player, runs what looks like a custom copy of debian on it. It handles VC1 interlaced video with ease.

So with the source code to this device in hand is it possible to work with whatever libraries are within this source code and port it to other platforms?

I am obviously not a programmer, but I am always willing to learn : )


Or maybe this is not realistic at all

Thanks in advance
kim

[nm]

Patriot Box Office, a simple media player, runs what looks like a custom copy of debian on it. It handles VC1 interlaced video with ease.

It uses a hardware decoder. You can do the same in all Linux distributions with VA-API (which has backends for Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs) or VDPAU (Nvidia only).

Or you could use Microsoft's binary decoder with MPlayer/MEncoder (latest decoder versions may require patching (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1540053#post1540053)). This only works with 32-bit MPlayer builds though.

[add1kt]

Ahh, bubble bursting....
for two reasons, i run 64 bit and for the other more obvious one
thanks though

[nm]

Ahh, bubble bursting....
for two reasons, i run 64 bit
These days 32-bit binaries run just fine on 64-bit distributions.