User:Dicey

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I'm a programmer that's interested in digital video, primarily through QuickTime. Windows users may call me crazy, but the QuickTime framework is actually fairly decent on Mac OS X, with several OSX-only components and players. Plus, it's what Front Row uses for playback. My current projects are:

Matroska QT - a component for QuickTime that allows playback of (and eventually export to) Matroska files with QuickTime.

QT Sub - a component for QuickTime for various subtitle formats, including VobSub, SRT, and SSA/ASS.

FFusion - a component for QuickTime enabling full playback of all MPEG4 video (QuickTime doesn't support packed bitstreams or high profile H.264 or Microsoft's bastardizations). The original authors seem to have disappeared.

AVIT - a tool for getting detailed information about a video file, as QuickTime sees it.

Getting Aegisub to run natively on Mac OS X, with no need for external libraries.

Other projects for Mac OS X that I want to work on (or seen done by someone else) in the future include (in no particular order):

A manual inverse telecine tool similar to YATTA

A frame-level video editor utilizing QuickTime and Core Video

Various Core Image filters designed to retouch and clean video

Support for OGM's video, audio, and subtitle formats in QuickTime (through XiphQT maybe)

Extending the x264 QuickTime component to utilize all of x264's features

Extending the AC3 component for QuickTime to decode all channels instead of downmuxing to stereo

Creating a DTS decoder for QuickTime

Creating a Core Audio plugin that allows multichannel audio output through an optical port by encoding to AC3 in real time

Porting the Lagarith lossless video codec to QuickTime