[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: About the new mpeg muxer

[Nico Sabbi]

Andriy N. Gritsenko wrote:

>    Hi, VJ!
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>Sometime (on Sunday, December  5 at 19:11) I've received something...
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>>>my new mpeg muxer is working quite well for me in most cases (except when 
>>>the source is telecined),
>>>and surely has many features that the old one lacks.
>>>I believe that it could be added to cvs so that users can use it and 
>>>report bugs and developers can improve it :)
>>>but IMO it's better to play safe and add it as a second mpeg muxer, rather 
>>>than replacing the old one.
>>>In this case I accept advices on the name :)
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>>>Opinions ?
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>>If this is the one I am looking for (and Nico sent me the patch for) I 
>>second the idea of adding it to CVS.
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>    If you meant the Nico's patch from August then I'm strongly against
>committing it to CVS without remaking it since that patch has some MPEG
>standard violations and unnecessary growth of file size.
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>    With best wishes.
>    Andriy.
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as I wrote, I propose to *add* my muxer to mencoder, not to replace yours,
because there are cases when yours is still preferrable.