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

[Roberto Togni]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:32:24 -0400
Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:

> 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.
> 

The right solution is adding AVParser support to MPlayer for lavc codec
that requires it (taking care not to break codec implementations that
does not need it, but that should not be too hard).

Ciao,
 Roberto

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