[MPlayer-dev-eng] PATCH to support theora-exp in mplayer

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 05:06:01PM -0400, Timothy B. Terriberry wrote:
> > Flip is deprecated and must not be used anymore. Instead use negative
> > strides if your codec outputs upside-down pictures.
> 
> The problem is this: the library outputs right-side up pictures, but
> they are decoded from bottom to top, as this is how they are stored in

This is a very ugly hack..

> the bitstream. However, mplayer's filters (most notably vf_scale) do not
> handle slice rendering unless it is done from top to bottom. So the

vf_scale is the only such filter, and it's broken. Actually filters
are not allowed to make any assumptions about the order/shape of
slices, but vf_scale does because it's broken. Someone should fix it.

> If you have a better suggestion, I'm all ears.

See above. :)

Rich