[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavf/matroskadec: SMI to SVQ3

[Mats Peterson]

On 01/06/2016 11:26 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Mats Peterson <matsp888-at-yahoo.com <at> ffmpeg.org> writes:
>
>> You're welcome to fix this issue on the MPlayer side,
>> since it seems you've done that before.
>
> If there were a fourcc (or codec_tag) "SMI " this
> would be trivial to fix in MPlayer.
> But this codec_tag does not exist, FFmpeg used to
> write broken mkv files that contained only part
> of the stsd atom.
> "Your" patch is correct, the codec_tag for mkv files
> containing SVQ3 should be "SVQ3".
>
> Carl Eugen
>
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Yes, I know my patch is correct in that sense. One thing I don't 
understand is why MPlayer looks at the codec tag whatsoever in order to 
determine the video codec, when it should use the codec ID. But that's 
not my problem.

Mats

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