[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Theora in Matroska

[Uoti Urpala]

On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 21:18 +0400, Evgeniy Stepanov wrote:
> I have not yet seen a file that would work with fftheora. Every sample in 
> ftp://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/samples/ogg/Theora failes with
> [theora @ 0x865bef8]Missing extradata!

> This patch does a very simple thing: unpacks 3 header packets from codec 
> private data and feeds them to the codec like regular packets. I'm not 
> familiar with libavcodec interface. Could it be that it requires passing 
> headers in some other way ?

Given that message and a quick look at libavcodec/vp3.c I think it wants
the headers in the codec-specific data.