[MPlayer-cygwin] mpeg4 with MPlayer v1.0pre7 source

[Joey Parrish]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:37:12AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> FFmpeg supports features that DivX doesn't, when these features get
> used, normal DivX players will fail.  In short, compatibility with DivX
> is an illusion best shattered early.  At least that's how I understood
> it.

Ah!  That makes sense.  A good example of this is MPEG4 AVI with the
aspect ratio set in the video stream.  WMP won't display the correct
aspect, but MPlayer will.  If the fourcc is different, then ffdshow
could take exclusive responsibility for it and (presumably) even WMP
would play it correctly.

--Joey

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