[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] rc2 at the beginning of October

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:13:58AM +0300, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> On 14 September 2007, RC wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:48:21 +0300
> >
> > Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Currently '-ac ffmp3' chokes on some video files, this one can be used
> > > as  an example, it plays fine with ffplay but has problems with
> > > mplayer:
> > > ftp://upload.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/samples/benchmark/testsuite2/Coyote.Ugl
> > >y.Sample-highbitrate-atmos.avi
> >
> > Several of the ff* codecs require you to use -demuxer lavf as well.
> > I'd really like to see libmpdemux depreciated, asap.  ffmp3 handles that
> > video just fine.
> 
> Thanks a lot, did not know that. What should be done to get libmpdemux
> deprecated sooner?

In addition to the particular fixes Diego reported, doing extensive
testing for regressions when switching to lavf demuxer would be very
helpful! This task does not require coding or demuxer logic knowledge.
You just need to see what features are lacking or buggy and report
them to ffmpeg developers.

Rich