[MPlayer-dev-eng] What is odml good for??

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hi,
> >Hi, I'd like to know what ODML is good for, because the only thing I
> >heard about it up to now is that it is very good at crashing MPlayer
> >(see http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=86).
> 
> It does two things that I know of: it allows vaguely proper handling of
> AVI files greater than 2GB in size (there were, once upon a time, quite
> a number of requests for this; if OpenDML support were removed, I
> suspect there would be again), and it allows proper seeking in AVI files
> of any size which have OpenDML indices. The former of these is more
> commonly important than the latter, judging by the discussions and
> requests I've seen, but it is the latter which matters to me because I
> have a number of AVI files which use OpenDML even though they're small
> enough that they don't need to - and I'd very much rather be able to
> seek in them than not.

It seems that at least with files that mencoder created -forceidx is
just as fast... Maybe mencoder should be fixed as well...

> >I'd say either this feature is important enough to somebody that
> >he/she/it will fix or I'll just remove it.
> 
> Don't, please. It may, perhaps, be worthwhile to make OpenDML
> non-automatic and/or non-default (and I don't mean at compile time) -
> but it took long enough to get support added in the first place that I
> feel that even comparatively buggy support is better than no support at
> all, especially since while there's buggy support there's the chance of
> someone deciding to go in and fix it.

You know, maybe the threat alone motivates somebody to do something
about it ;-)

> >I'm quite fed up with stupid, useless code in MPlayer.
> 
> ...on principle I'd agree with you, but I'm a little sore right now over
> the fact that I'm not sure I want to update to the latest CVS because
> I'd lose volume-control functionality because AFAIRBATT at last check
> the volume filter *still* did not provide functionality equivalent to
> what was provided by the volume plugin...

I don't think that is the case anymore - it should actually provide more
functionality... You will of course have to find out how to use it of
course ;-)

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger