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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 06:15:31PM +0200, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> 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.
> 
> I wont request a different fourcc if your "hack" (you said it like it is
> non-standard) doesnt interfere with the "standard usage" of vorbis.

It's only nonstandard because (to my knowledge) there was no fourcc
for vorbis before this.. Of course it doesn't interfere with standard
usage any more than the "DIVX" fourcc interferes with standard usage
of mpeg4.

> Spread this fourcc.

OK.

Rich