Add Apple Pixlet video codec support.

[elmimmo]

Currently Quicktime movies with Apple Pixlet video can only be played as long as you have a Mac running Mac OS 10.3 or beyond, and QuickTime 6 or beyond. No other single player, no other PC and no other OS will play them.

Because of that, as if now, everything encoded in Pixlet video format is at Apple's stake and might get outdated whenever Apple changes its mind to support it.

It'd be nice to have an alternative free player that could handle them.

[Guest]

Are there any pixlet videos on the internet? I've never actually seen one. All the stuff on Apple's web site is SVQ3 or MPEG4.

[elmimmo]

Pixlet is not aimed towards internet downloads. The file sizes are huge for that.

[The DJ]

Pixlet is a complicated codec and not widely used. Reverse engineering it, would be a gigantic effort. VLC developers don't do this in general. Most of the reverse engineered codecs that we support were written by the ffmpeg team. But i don't think any of their developers would be interested in reverse engineering this. (we are talking months of work here).