[MPlayer-users] decoding ogg theora with ffmpeg and not libtheora

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 06:08:47PM +0200, bond wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 01:32:27 +0200
> > "bond" <b-o-n-d at gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> > > any idea whats wrong or how i can get it to work?
> >
> > Well, it's clear that you won't be able to get it to work.
> >
> > It seems to be a bug in mplayer.
> 
> ic, any plans to fix this? the libavcodec decoder should be faster than the
> reference (libtheora)

Yes, someone wrote the ogg demuxer in mplayer very stupidly to only
work with xiph libraries. Hopefully someone will fix it, but I'd
actually prefer to complete the ogg demuxer in libavformat and then
remove the crappy one from mplayer.

Rich