[MPlayer-users] Autodetection of .flv files

[Nico Sabbi]

Thomas Hellström wrote:

> Well, it plays the file nicely but the ultimate goal is to have it 
> autodetected.
> If I force -demuxer lavf, normal mpeg2 files don't use xvmc, and I'm 
> back at square zero.
> With the slow processor I need xvmc for dvd-type files.
>
> Does mplayer have autodetection based on file content

yes

> and what file should I look into?
> Obviously the "file" command recognizes it, so it should be doable.
>
for flv there's no native demuxer, so demux_lavf (a bridge between 
libavformat family
of demuxers) must be used, but for obvious reasons demux_lavf has a very low
priority. Evidently demux_audio, tried before lavf, is misdetecting the 
file as mp3.
This is stuff for Reimar