[MPlayer-dev-eng] DV AVI handling in mplayer

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:09:48AM +0000, Albina Veratrina wrote:
> 
> >Am Freitag, 3. Januar 2003 11.19 schrieb Albina Veratrina:
> >
> >I'm not sure, but this looks like one of those "Type 1 DV AVI", that
> >dvgrab and kino generate. They are not supported by MPlayer (or, to my
> >knowledge, any software other than kino). Use "Type 2 DV AVI" instead.
> Well, you're correct, but how hard to implement support for those
> in MPlayer, for example using Win32 codec, if no reliable native codec 
> exist?

It has nothing to do with the codec, it's that the muxing is totally
broken. Both audio and video are stored muxed together in a single DV
stream inside the avi file, which totally breaks the rules for how avi
files are supposed to be.

Rich