MCF when??!!!

[chepe36]

what's happening to MCF when is it going to be released?
in the faq it says february but we alredy are at march.

[Neo Neko]

There has been massive work done of late. There are binaries and working code going. But it is not ready for a medium closed alpha let alone a beta test ATM. Tronic has in recent days had an influx of outside help and comments and has been working to tweak the spec to be it's best. The developers have been able to make MCF files, but they do not feal the code is ready to be played with by the general public. I would trust their judgement on that. But it is by no means dead, there is still talk going on at powerdivx.com on the subject. A bit more patience and I feal you might be pleasantly suprised.

[ChristianHJW]

Well, in fact for somebody who knows how to access a CVS tree on sourceforge and how to use a compiler there is plenty of stuff in the CVS that could be tested now.

But, as Neo Neko has pointed out, its in no way fit to go public beta. Before we do this step we will for absolutely certain do some first alpha test runs with the 'world famous' powerdivx beta test team .. and then go public.

Dont expect this to happen before May/June ..

[Nic]

Nobody told me! :)

Oh well,
been a browsing the source, I love the way its written, Im always more of a C++ fan than a C fan, but I can understand the need for simple ANSI C.

The way the API is being written to be like the standard C I/O routines is good...very familiar (& without the drawbacks of normal C I/O (eg filesize limit etc)).

(ps don't like the idea of a struct being initalised in a struct (i.e. in the main MCF struct), can cause messy nasty things)

Im going to do some testing, wouldn't mind writing an AVIFile API style wrapper round it, means I can test it easier......

I hope Tobias or Ingo writes the DShow decoder/splitter....it would take alot of time...& although I'd love to do it I don't have the time....Damn, I wish I was unemployed again....

Anyway, the point of this post (as I have gone completly OT) is that it looks like its coming along great....

Cheers,
-Nic

[ChristianHJW]

Originally posted by Nic
[B]Nobody told me! :) ;) ... isnt it nice to find out by yourself :D .. BTW, don forget to join the mailing list ... you'll be surprise by the speed MCF develops ... and go visit us on irc.openprojects.net #mcf .. it may be quite therein sometimes, but most evening we have nice and interesting talking there ...

[BlackSun]

Originally posted by Nic
Nobody told me! :)


Im going to do some testing, wouldn't mind writing an AVIFile API style wrapper round it, means I can test it easier......



That's a very good idea, and this will help Ciler as well ;)


I hope Tobias or Ingo writes the DShow decoder/splitter....it would take alot of time...& although I'd love to do it I don't have the time....Damn, I wish I was unemployed again....


I told you, you are doing too many things ;) Anyway the DSF has not been written yet, I have discussed a bit with Ingo about this, we want to make some very good DSF with every needed supported (even DirectShow Editing Services)