[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] WebM mux/demux

[James Zern]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 15:02, Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:51 PM, James Zern <jzern at google.com> wrote:
>> Related thread: '[PATCH] VP8 de/encode via libvpx'
>> VP8 and associated WebM container made public today [1].
>>
>> The attached adds WebM de/muxing to matroska.
>> For both some extra ifdef's/checks were added to only allow VP8/vorbis
>> as that is the current supported configuration in web browsers. If
>> these are too busy in this respect they be cleaned up.
>
> Why is the "webm demuxer" separate? Our quicktime demuxer, for
> example, demuxes mp4 and 3gp also. The same could be done for
> matroska. After all, it's a regular subset and thus any matroska
> demuxer understanding the "webm" ID could demux webm files also. (I
> know this isn't true for the muxer.)
Good point, may have gotten carried away.