[MPlayer-dev-eng] new nut thread

[Roberto Togni]

On 2004.10.10 20:47, Moritz Bunkus wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> > i'm for using a single id (except maybe for yuv formats) and store
> > other data in codec_specific_data (like number of bits for rgb
> > formats).
> 
> IMHO the decision which codec to use should never depend on the
> demuxer
> being able to parse codec_specific_data. This field should ONLY
> contain
> data that the codec in question uses/interprets.

Agree, but it's not the demuxer that needs to read that data but the  
codec; demuxer just invoke the raw decoder, and it's up to the decoder  
to tell exactly which format data uses.
Even if it's a raw format, mplayer (and probably other players too)  
have a codec for it.

Ciao,
 Roberto