[MPlayer-dev-eng] Why is the mplayer-1.0pre3-dumpvideo.diff patch not applied?

[Alex Beregszaszi]

Hi,

> > I proposed an mdump or something, but not adding such useless
> > feature hiearchy to mplayer/mencoder
> 
> originally the dumped streams are not standard and aren't pharsable by
> other applications. (mplex, tcmplex and others)
> this patch fixes this bug
this is not a bug

> > > > But I would be happy if it would be applied ;-)
> > > Agree, if it's not broken. I haven't read it myself.
> > Don't apply this patch as that size field is needed when using the
> > output. You know, some devs use dumps for reverse engineering and
> > such.
> 
> if you apply, mplex, and others can pharse the streams.
> will anything be broken with this patch?
yes

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Alex Beregszaszi <alex at fsn.hu>
(MPlayer Core Developer -- http://www.mplayerhq.hu/)