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

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 01:14:31AM -0400, Timothy B. Terriberry wrote:
> Rich Felker wrote:
> > My philosophy is that, when hacks are required to support a bad format
> > (xiph headers), they should be isolated as close to the "problem" as
> > possible, so that they don't affect other parts of the program.
> 
> No, because that's stupid. You have stated that one of your intended
> goals is to use this extradata format to support embedding Theora in
> Matroska or AVI or whatever else with no special handling. Shoving the
> first I-frame into it would directly prohibit that, since it would

HELL NO! I would never suggest anything idiotic like that!!!

I said to keep the first frame in the demuxer private area so that you
could demux it next time the demuxer is called. NOT IN THE EXTRADATA!!

Rich