[MPlayer-dev-eng] DV AVI handling in mplayer
D Richard Felker III
dalias at aerifal.cx
Sat Jan 4 10:08:27 CET 2003
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:09:48AM +0000, Albina Veratrina wrote:
>
> >Am Freitag, 3. Januar 2003 11.19 schrieb Albina Veratrina:
> >
> >I'm not sure, but this looks like one of those "Type 1 DV AVI", that
> >dvgrab and kino generate. They are not supported by MPlayer (or, to my
> >knowledge, any software other than kino). Use "Type 2 DV AVI" instead.
> Well, you're correct, but how hard to implement support for those
> in MPlayer, for example using Win32 codec, if no reliable native codec
> exist?
It has nothing to do with the codec, it's that the muxing is totally
broken. Both audio and video are stored muxed together in a single DV
stream inside the avi file, which totally breaks the rules for how avi
files are supposed to be.
Rich
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