[MPlayer-dev-eng] mencoder -oac copy does not work all the times.

[compn]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:28:41 -0400
Giacomo Comes <comes at naic.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 07:15:07PM +0100, Moritz Bunkus wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > > --- libmpdemux/ms_hdr.h.ori	2005-01-17 11:49:41.000000000 -0400
> > > +++ libmpdemux/ms_hdr.h	2005-01-17 11:50:37.000000000 -0400
> > > @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
> > >  #ifndef _WAVEFORMATEX_
> > >  #define _WAVEFORMATEX_
> > >  typedef struct __attribute__((__packed__)) _WAVEFORMATEX {
> > > -  unsigned short  wFormatTag;
> > > +  unsigned int    wFormatTag;
> > >    unsigned short  nChannels;
> > >    unsigned int    nSamplesPerSec;
> > >    unsigned int    nAvgBytesPerSec;
> > 
> > rofl. This will make those files unplayable with anything else than
> > mplayer/mencoder. The WAVEFORMATEX structure has a fixed format that you
> > cannot change.
> 
> Hey, I'm not an MPlayer developer. I wrote to the list to receive comments.
> 
> Do you have more contructive suggestions about the problem 
> with LPCM audio?

maybe it is not possible to put lpcm into avi? -oac copy -of mpeg work?
dvds sometimes have other audio streams, e.g. ac3. or maybe -ao pcm?
does lpcm > avi work with ffmpeg?

could be like putting vorbis into avi. just my two cents.