[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPCF Draft/Discussion (MPlayer Container

[Robert R. Wal]

On 03.02.07 D Richard Felker III pressed the following keys:

> On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:47:39PM +0100, Robert R. Wal wrote:
> > On 03.02.07 D Richard Felker III pressed the following keys:
> > 
> > > a spinoff of something else to begin with. COOLA is nice because it
> > > sounds kinda "el1te" and might actually get the "scene" people using
> > > it...
> > 
> > These are exactly my arguments against it ;)
> 
> You'd rather keep getting avi files with lousy 128kbit cbr mp3 audio,
> or unseekable ogm files?? :(
> 
> Even if you don't care about these, I think it's useful to get mpcf
> widely accepted before mcf/matroska are deployed. Otherwise we're
> going to have to implement support for that crap in mplayer once
> people start using it..... :( If we kill it with a better alternative
> before it's even in use, everyone might just forget about it and then
> we can avoid that painful work.

About the only way to convince them to use this format is to
- create dshow filters for creation and playback of this format
- create windows gui frontend for those filters to allow nobrainer
  create MCPF files from avi+ac3/mp3/vorbis/pcm(or any of them wrapped
  in WAV)
- arrange with authors of most popular player programs to create
  additional support for them if needed (including adding
  entry for this filetype to registry that would make doubleclick-play
  possible with these players)

Without this the format is doomed even before it took off.

Robert

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