[Mplayer-users] 0.18pre4 released with native divx codec :)

[Felix Bünemann]

Hello Gábor,

Saturday, July 07, 2001, 12:36:29 PM, you wrote:

GL> On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 12:21:39PM +0200, Felix Buenemann wrote:
>> > that driver type. With your patch it is not possible to give that option
>> > into config file to TRY to force driver type but not disturb formats which
>> > hasn't got codec inside that driver type set. Or something :) I hope I was
>> > clear enough but who knows ...
>> >
>> > > so you can do something like ./mplayer foo.avi -ac mp3acm -vc ffdivx
>> >
>> > Nice, but as I mentioned above you CAN'T insert these options to your
>> > config file!! I didn't want to FORCE a special codec BUT TRY to force
>> > a DRIVER TYPE (not codec). You option is usefull but somewhat differs from
>> > my goals so I think patches of both of us are usefull and for different
>> > things. (It would be usefull to force a dedicated audio/video codec for
>> > playing but it would be usefull to try to use codec from a driver family
>> > as well. These are not the same!!)
>> I know, these switches are of course useless for config file, but if you 
>> always want to prefer ffmpeg codecs you can simply move them up in codecs.conf
>> but we may simply allow bothe methods, so have -ac and -vc and also have -afm 
>> and -vfm how about that?

GL> No. You may want to test performance of ffmpeg codecs only and you don't want
GL> to edit codecs.conf each time. I wanted to avoid this constant editing with
GL> my new option. You may want to use to test several ffmpeg codecs for a while
GL> on different type of movies (different codecs within ffmpeg codecs "familiy").
GL> So it's simple to put a vcodec=5 line into your config file and you needn't
GL> worry about playing movies can't handled by ffmpeg codecs because mplayer
GL> would fall back other type of codecs in this way and so on.

GL> Maybe I'm wrong but imho now there is NO option to select codec driver
GL> FAMILY (not an individual codec, a set of codecs belong to the same driver
GL> type). For testing purposes I will keep my modification (though I'm not sure
GL> to mix it with your patch and commit or not) because it's much more easy to
GL> test several things in this way (dshow/nodshow switches were similar to my
GL> option but those were able to select between dshow/nodshow codecs only.
GL> I want to extend this to any type with -vcodec).
yea that's why I say to readd -afm and -vfm which is out to select
codec family, while -avc and -vc select specific codec.

GL> Well, this is not a flame thread though it begins to become that :)




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 Felix                            mailto:atmosfear at users.sourceforge.net



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