[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Mark ffwmav2 as crashing

[Roberto Togni]

On 2003.12.13 17:12, ismail 'cartman' dönmez wrote:
> Hi,
>
[,,,]
> I tried -ac wmadmo and saw that it performs very well/fast on all
> wmv's I
> tried. So I suggest marking ffwmav2 as crashing so wmadmo is selected
> by
> default.
> 
> The problem I see here is ffwmav2 is marked as "untested" in
> codecs.conf
> whereas wmadmo is marked as "working" but still ffwmav2 is selected  
> by
> default. Bug?
No. Codecs markes "untested" have higher priority that working ones, to  
"encourage" users to test them and report bugs.

As Rich pointed out, if you mark it as crashing it will never be  
autoselected ("crashing" codecs are used only if you force them with - 
ac), so people without windows binaries won't be able to play wma2  
files.

The right solution is to mark ffwma2 as "working": since wmadmo comes  
before ffwma2 in codecs.conf, it will be selected when available; else  
MPlayer will try with other codecs (divx and ffmwa2, in this order).

Ciao,
 Roberto