[FFmpeg-devel] [Ffmpeg-user] chroma errors on movie file.

[Reimar Doeffinger]

Hello,
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 12:26:51PM -0300, gga wrote:
> Talking about demuxers... what's the main reason for mplayer to have two
> different demuxers (the LPGL/GPL ffmpeg one and the GPL only mplayer
> one) that basically do the same thing?

The MPlayer native ones are older. There are still some features that do
not work via lavf (subtitle stuff, esp. SSA/ASS with all fancyness in mkv).
And sometimes it's just good to have an alternative, like in this case.

Greetings,
Reimar Doeffinger