[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add WebM to the Matroska demuxer name

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 04:10:29PM -0400, Alex Converse wrote:
> So am I going to wind up burying this patch because we can't agree on
> what the ideal libavformat API should be?
> 
> What's making me irritated here is the patch is not being held up
> because it is broken but because people dislike the established
> interfaces.

It is "broken" in so far as it _will_ break MPlayer, MPlayer
uses the short name to decide whether to accept or reject an
autodetection (since for some formats the lavf demuxers
are not working well enough).
This may not have been the intended use, but it seems likely
to me other applications may have misused it in similar ways,
since I am not aware of any other way to uniquely identify a
_given_ AVInputFormat.