[MPlayer-dev-eng] Default cvid decoder

[Arpi]

Hi,

> Yesterday on mplayer-users someone complained (see "distorted output 
> with cvid codec") about an avi displayed wrong.
> The problem is there only with vfw codec, it works fine with the native 
> one.
> It's not the first report of this kind that i remember (usualy 
> associated with odd width files).
> 
> Is there any reason to prefer the vfw codec over the native one?

yes, the native one doesn't support 8bpp (grayscale and/or paletted?) files.

there were several fixes into the native decoder in xine, once i tried to
port them but they did "Ingo-style optimization" (indent, variable renaming
etc) so i gave up.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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