native vs libavformat demuxers (was: Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC][PATCH] audio and video framers)

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 01:03:48AM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:21:44AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> [...]
> > I have a feeling that most of the libavformat demuxers except for
> > RealMedia are probably better than our native ones.  Did anybody compare
> > them in detail and/or run benchmarks?
> 
> No, though once in a while there tends to be one that works with one but
> not the other, in both directions.

if lavf where used by default (for a few more formats) the quality of 
lavf demuxers would improve alot there arent that many bugreports which
arent fixed, its rather the lack of bugreports


> Primary candidates for removal are IMO demux_nuv.c (possibly with
> corresponding decoder) and demux_mpc.c definitely with corresponding
> decoder, because it does not work with ffmpeg decoder and when muxed
> into AVI will create a format that (although I find it more sane) is
> very different from what lavf creates and not playable with ffmpeg
> decoder either.

if ffmpeg is insane then dont hesitate to send a patch to fix that

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