[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] new mpeg muxer

[Nico Sabbi]

Michael Niedermayer wrote:

>maybe fixing lavf muxing support would be the best idea then, its supposed to 
>be a 100% compliant (s)vcd muxer
>
>but it seems some people prefer to rewrite everything, thats fine too, just a 
>little sad, as the time could have been spent fixing/improving the existing 
>code in libavformat from which many projects and not just mencoder would have 
>benefited
>
>anyway, small question, does the new mpeg muxer support anything lavf doesnt? 
>iam just asking so i know what to put on my todo list
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I began to write the muxer in june or july last year, when lavf wan't even
an option for making *vds (didn't have nav packs).
Besides, it would have been a 3 steps process: getting to know lavf api,
patching it and then linking it with a bridged muxer
in mencoder, so I decided that it was much easier and quick to patch
mencoder's muxer, although I ended up almost rewriting it.

Now I agree that lavf works well too, but I don't know it, so I can't
compare it with mine.
There are very marginal/unimportant things that mine does
(muxing mpeg4 and soon h264) and lavf doesn't, or the opposite:
I don't manage lpcm.

They can surely benefit from each other.
      
    Nico