Starting to write this blog with a great news that the PR implementing the CgBI decoder as well as the hint system has been created. I just finished the last touch up of the hint system and then pushed it. How long it takes before it gets merged now is subject to review.
While implementing the hints, I encountered many cases where, due to many hints for a single question, the hints did not fit on the screen all at once. So, I implemented a button to go down to the bottom so that the user can view the hints fully.
This is how the hint system is working. As you can see, the moment the hints go beyond the bottom edge, the “down” button appears.
Next, I will be implementing the intro and outro videos. Those videos are in a format named “m4v”, which, as I understood by reading about it, is just an mp4 container only but with a different extension, created by apple. It uses the aac audio and h264 video codec. I am not completely sure if our existing decoders would be able to decode this format but during the time I had started working on this project, I’ve had a discussion with @sev on this topic and he thinks that our quicktime decoder would be able to decode it.
So, I will start attempting to decode it with quicktime only.
Thanks for reading 🙂