[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] xan_dpcm in MPlayer + libavformat

[Mike Melanson]

M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> The proper fix would of course be for mplayer to use codec_id instead
> of codec_tag to choose decoder.  Well, it's ugly enough as it is, so I
> don't object to adding this to the hack.  That said, I'd be grateful
> to whomever could find the person responsible for this lunacy in the
> first place, and shoot him.

Are you talking about the developer of AVI or the person who muxed these 
particular files? (I think I know the latter individual.) To be fair, 
this is one of those situations where the files were not meant to be 
played in general-purpose media players.

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	-Mike Melanson