[MPlayer-dev-eng] libavcodec error concealing bug?

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Sunday 16 June 2002 15:19, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > if all encoders would put some id in the file so they can clearly be
> > identified then it would be much easyer to workaround such bugs, but
> > sadly divx5 & ffmpeg are the only encoders which do this currently afaik
>
> hmm.
> what about passing this information from the caller, ie. mplayer?
> it know more-or-less the encoder, from the .avi/.asf headers
> for example, MP4S fourcc in .asf is mpeg4ds.ax format for sure.
> anyway .asf has a field in the main header to describe codec version,
> download url, etc... it's ignored now, but i can pass it to libavcodec
> so it could recognize encoders even if this info isn't in teh compressed
> video
hmm, would be nice :)

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Michael