[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/xml/en mencoder.xml,1.39,1.40

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 03:33:37PM +0200, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> > uses ('V'<<8)+'o' but thats just choosen by us (me?) as it was
> > > needed for nut, so if theres a official one, we should changed to
> > > that
> > 
> > Afaik there's not. I used "vrbs" in MPlayer for a fake fourcc for
> > demux_ogg and demux_mkv to output. Personally I prefer fourcc to
> > stupid ms-style twocc/16bit-int method (the latter is too likely to
> > have collisions even when you don't expect it).
> 
> I would say propagate Vrbs or something similar as semi-official and use
> it in ffmpeg aswell. And choose something different for your hacks in
> mplayer

Huh? Why should we use a DIFFERENT fourcc for the same codec??
My "hack in mplayer" is not a hack, it's just assigning a fourcc since
ogg is missing fourcc's for native-ogg codecs. The old 0xfffe crap was
a hack, that's why I removed it.

Rich