[MPlayer-users] Re: divx 6

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 12:35:23AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:51:50PM +0200, Alexander Noe' wrote:
> > Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski schrieb:
> > 
> > >On Friday, 28 April 2006 at 21:09, Alexander Noe' wrote:
> > >[...]
> > >
> > >>mplayer still can't even read open-dml AVI files
> > >
> > >
> > >AFAIK this is completely false. Do you have a sample to prove otherwise?
> > 
> > Last time someone tried playing a low-overhead mode file with mplayer 
> > this someone reported that it didn't work. When I went to #mplayer to 
> > explain them how this type of open-dml file works and why it is a 
> > correct open-dml file, it was told that this was an "aberration" of 
> > the open-dml specs and that mplayer won't support that unless I 
> > provide a patch.
> > 
> > Since I haven't provided such a patch, I conclude that low-overhead 
> > files, which are correct open-dml files, are not supported.
> 
> They are not correct files since they are unplayable without the index
> and thus hopelessly fragile (and also unplayable before download
> completes). This is idiotic and broken and regardless of whether it's
> within the letter of the spec it's absolutely wrong.

does lavf as demuxer play them? and yes i agree these files arent valid
(assuming i guess correctly what we are talking about ...)

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Michael

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