[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] new C only matroska demuxer

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 12:29:48PM +0100, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> > > On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:52:01 +0100
> > > If you want some help to maintain it, or if you want me to improve
> > > some part of it, just ask !
> > > Aurelien
> > 
> > Aurelien, we have MPEG2 working in MKV now, if you want a sample file 
> > pls. come to the #matroska channel, it would be nice if you could add 
> > MPEG2 playback from MKV in your mplayer patch. VLC people have it 
> > working since today, Xine people got test files already ...
> 
> What's teh sence of putting mpeg2 to mkv container???
> I can't see any reason why is it worth to do it.

Putting mpeg2 in a good container might be useful for editing or
allowing fast seeking. Unfortunately matroska is not a good
container...

Rich