Hi all: I am looking into writing a module that will look up information on a Video file's Four Character Code (FourCC) and display some useful stuff, like a description of what the codec actually is. This will be useful for the Video::Info package in particular, because it only extracts those four bytes from the file and does nothing further.
I have looked at two references [1], [2] for FourCC codes that are commonly used. These descriptions will let people figure out characteristics of video files, like the encoding that was used and the expected quality of that encoding - for instance, if the FourCC is "CDVC", then we know that it was encoded using the Canopus DV Codec - thus the file was thus created on a digital camcorder, and that's the quality we can expect from it. The Wikipedia [3] page is pretty useful for explaining what FourCC is, and will hopefully establish some relevancy. What I am looking for are the community's thoughts on such a module, since it would really just be a large internal hash table with FourCC codes mapped to descriptions (or, optionally, an SQLite database, but I don't think it's really large enough to warrant that - it should fit mostly in memory). Aside from searching for the phase "FourCC" using the CPAN search engine, I haven't really done a whole lot of searching, and so I don't know if there is/are [a] package(s) that handle this type of thing. Cheers, Jonathan Yu -- [1] http://www.fourcc.org/codecs.php [2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms867195.aspx#fourcccodes [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FourCC
