[MPlayer-dev-eng] Matroska demuxer, C++ sources

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 06:04:56PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Friday 11 April 2003 17:41, Moritz Bunkus wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > > Please instead write an independent demuxer in C.
> >
> > Unfortunately not possible for me at the moment.
> IMHO c++ is ok until a c version exists if its is only compiled when 
> libmatroska or whatever is available ...
> 
> btw, perhaps u want to add libmatroska support to ffmpeg/libavformat too

I would strongly suggest waiting for native code for libavformat,
since whereas mplayer is supposed to play any file, ffmpeg (especially
its libs) is meant to be a simple (heh), clean, dependency-free (at
least in the long term) implementation.

Rich