[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] formats.html

[Alban Bedel]

Hi Diego Biurrun,

on Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:44:46 +0100 you wrote:

> Arpi writes:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > > Patch updated.  The relevant section now reads
>  > > 
>  > >   MPlayer used to be a Movie and not a Media player. This is slowly
>  > >   changing and MP3, OGG VORBIS, ASF (WMA), MP4 and WAV are currently
>  > >   supported. Nevertheless the main focus is still video, so you may
>  > >   prefer to use alternatives like xmms or mpg123 instead. 
>  > 
>  > also should add some notes about possible mpg vs. mp3 missdetection.
>  > as mplayer is movie player, it prefers mpg to mp3 in (not so) rare cases
>  > when it cannot decide the format, and it may results in broken playback
>  > or nothing. sorry, we cannot support all mp3s, without dropping the
>  > support for broken mpeg video files.
> 
> OK, what about this:
> 
>   MPlayer used to be a Movie and not a Media player. This is slowly
>   changing and MP3, OGG VORBIS, ASF (WMA), MP4 and WAV are currently
>   supported. Nevertheless the main focus is still video, so you may
>   prefer to use alternatives like xmms or mpg123 instead. 
>   You may have problems playing certain MP3 files that mplayer will
>   misdetect as mpegs and play incorrectly or not at all.  This cannot
>   be fixed without dropping support for certain broken mpeg files and
>   thus will remain like this for the foreseeable future.
> 
>  > users must accept this, and use force demuxer option (-demuxer ?) in
>  > these cases.
> 
> Heh, -demuxer or -audio-demuxer?  I have no broken mpegs to test, what
> should I write in the docs?

-demuxer. -audio-demuxer is to specify the demuxer to use for the file given to
-audiofile. So -audio-demuxer won't have any effect unless -audiofile is given.

Also mplayer can play anything as long as file format and codec are supported,
so ASF with any codec supported by mplayer, not only WMA. This is the same
for ogg wich can be used with other audio codec than Vorbis (but not tested  as
I don't have any such sample ):
	Albeu