[MPlayer-dev-eng] Support for movie fragments in MOV/MP4

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 09:34:32AM +0200, David Romacho Rosell wrote:
> En/na Nico Sabbi ha escrit:
> > David Romacho Rosell wrote:
> >
> >> I have a modified version of  the mov demuxer that handles movie 
> >> fragments (as specified in the ISO/IEC-14496). This is particulary 
> >> useful for those videos created with cheap digital cameras, where the 
> >> video is stored in several movie fragments.
> >>
> >> Could that code be integrated into the MPlayer sources ? How would that 
> >> process be done? I am a newby into the development process so I would 
> >> appreciate any help.
> >>     
> > post a patch following the rules specified in the docs
> > or, better yet, post a patch to ffmpeg's libavformat
> > (provided that libavformat doesn't already handle that
> > kind of streams (mplayer -demuxer lavf will tell you))
> >   
> Thanks for this reply. The code I have is a modified version of the MOV 
> demuxer (demux_mov.c I think), not the libavformat. So, as I understand, 
> I have to send a patch. I couldn't find the documentation that descrives 
> the rules and how to create the patch. Could anyone send a pointer to 
> that document ?

See the FAQ, question #1.

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html

Diego