[MPlayer-users] Re: divx 6

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:51:50PM +0200, Alexander Noe' wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski schrieb:
> 
> >On Friday, 28 April 2006 at 21:09, Alexander Noe' wrote:
> >[...]
> >
> >>mplayer still can't even read open-dml AVI files
> >
> >
> >AFAIK this is completely false. Do you have a sample to prove otherwise?
> 
> Last time someone tried playing a low-overhead mode file with mplayer 
> this someone reported that it didn't work. When I went to #mplayer to 
> explain them how this type of open-dml file works and why it is a 
> correct open-dml file, it was told that this was an "aberration" of 
> the open-dml specs and that mplayer won't support that unless I 
> provide a patch.
> 
> Since I haven't provided such a patch, I conclude that low-overhead 
> files, which are correct open-dml files, are not supported.

They are not correct files since they are unplayable without the index
and thus hopelessly fragile (and also unplayable before download
completes). This is idiotic and broken and regardless of whether it's
within the letter of the spec it's absolutely wrong.

Rich