[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer and raw video

[compn]

On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:12:19 +0100
Mats Peterson <matsp888-at-yahoo.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:

> I just downloaded r37799, and there are still problems with raw video
> in Matroska. Not that it's overly much used, except by me, who likes
> to store everything in Matroska nowadays. But it's on the right
> track, at least. FFplay handles all of these files correctly (as
> expected), so perhaps it would be a good idea to use libavformat's
> demuxer for files containing raw video, if at all possible. As you
> said yourself, it's hardly top priority, and I know that too, but I
> just wanted to make you guys aware of the problems.

mplayer uses lavf mkv by default since a few years, because we stopped
maintaining mplayer mkv demuxer. mplayer mkv demuxer has problems with
h264 iirc.

sorry for the raw video / rgb in avi/mkv/mov confusion. i was not
paying attention.

keep posting samples and bugs to the trac, they may get fixed. when
devs have time/motivation.

-compn