[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Preliminary musepack support

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 09:23:05PM +0200, Roberto Togni wrote:
> On Tue, 10 May 2005 20:56:10 +0200
> Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > > Yes, the fact that it demuxes random amounts of data rather than
> > > complete packets, and probably doesn't have correct timestamps
> > > whatsoever.. We need more valid demuxers, not more broken ones..
> > 
> > Yes, that's what keeps both musepack-in-avi and seeking from working.
> > But I won't be the one to fix it (and judging by the general activity
> in
> > thsi area nobody will do that), so you only have the choice between
> > getting a broken demuxer or none...
> > So everybody vote, the majority wins *g*
> > 
> I'm for committing it if it works, an hacky demuxer is better than no
> support at all.
> And iirc most of the limitations come from the file format (seeking
> requiring codec knowledge, unless i'm mixing it up with other broken
> audio formats)

Seeking requires codec knowledge for all raw formats. Same for mp3.

Rich