[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC][PATCH] audio and video framers

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 03:14:27AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 11:32:52PM +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > This patch adds to mplayer a framer layer and 4 implementations (as 
> > usual for mpeg* formats):
> > - one for mpeg1/2 video
> > - one for each of mpeg audio, aac, ac3 (for dts it's equally trivial but 
> > I didn't have time).
> > - in theory there's support for codecs that use extradata (e.g. vorbis 
> > would be parsable)
> > 
> > Demuxers need only set ds->needs_parsing=1; if possible demux_open() 
> 
> any reason besides NIH syndrom that you dont just use the AVParsers?

Indeed: MPlayer should be moving towards using lavc/lavf more and
dropping libmpdemux eventually. I'm against adding a new layer like
this when we could just use AVParser.

Rich