[MPlayer-dev-eng] Release... How about it?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:18:42AM +0800, Jason Geng wrote:
> > >   Revert libmpeg2
> > 
> > i agree strongly. new version is buggy AND slower!
> > 
> > >   Default to ffmpeg for mpeg1/2
> > 
> > disagree. it's MUCH SLOWER. old libmpeg2 decodes everything except
> > 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 (which never appear in practice).
> 
> Excuse me for replying this thread not being a developer. Maybe 4:2:2
> case is very rare, but it's really not never. I indeed want to play some
> 4:2:2 videos, as described in bugzilla ID 140. In fact 4:2:2 mpeg2 are
> quite common in professional videos(e.g. broadcast industry).

well...does libmpeg2 fail gracefully and fallback to lavc if the video
is 4:2:2 or 4:4:4? or does it crash?

rich