[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add WebM to the Matroska demuxer name

[Måns Rullgård]

Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 01:58:58AM -0400, Alex Converse wrote:
>> $subj
>> 
>> Some users are getting confused. We do a similar thing for
>> "mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2."
>
> And I've always considered it a bad idea.
> Changing this field means the value you need to use for -f changes
> (and MPlayer actually also relies on this name), so strictly speaking
> this would require a major version bump.

-f matroska,webm would be nothing short of ridiculous.  The only way
to add aliases is currently to duplicate the whole struct, and I
consider that overkill for this case.  Webm is just a subset of
matroska anyway.  Parsing does not depend on the name as it might for
various mov-derivatives.

> Changing the long name should be ok though...

Yes, that is for display purposes only.

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