[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] CoreAVC [3/5] - Win32

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Guillaume Poirier <gpoirier <at> mplayerhq.hu> writes:

> I don't have any opinion about whether of not it should be merged
> (none of my main dev machines are likely to be supported by CoreAVC),
> but I can say that so far, it looks like support of binary codecs has
> only be added when no open source equivalent was available (such as
> wmv3 videos, stuff like that).
> 
> This is clearly not the case of CoreAVC so I'd say it's "less likely"
> that your patch gets accepted.

CoreAVC decodes PAFF encoded h264 streams, so there would be an advantage.

Carl Eugen