How To Go About Reverse Engineering Video Decoding

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Phoronix: How To Go About Reverse Engineering Video Decoding

With many Phoronix readers being curious about reverse-engineering graphics drivers for open-source enablement, along the same lines you may also be curious about how reverse-engineering is done with video formats / video decoding by multimedia applications...

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If you are looking for more of this kind of post, here's two great blogs that have covered this extensively:
Breaking Eggs & Making Omelettes
Kostya's Wild Codec World

A more recent example:
Reverse Engineering the CineForm codec