[MPlayer-users] How to change audio stream?

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 1/22/06, |TEcHNO| <techno at punkt.pl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > The container is what really matters, not the audio codec being used.
> > DVDs use an MPEG container, which is supported.  AVIs, OTOH...
> A bit OT: Anyone got any insight why is it so hard to do audio switching
> on-the-fly in OGM and similar? Mayby some papers on it? AFAIK, it is
> possible.

The main reason is that OGM and Matroska "on the fly audio switching"
support has been written by a contributor, pretty much with a hack
(but this was also the easiest way to do it). The core team team
doesn't like the way it's been written, therefore a bit of work has
been done by another contributor to make 'on the fly audio switching'
work with other containers.

Unfortunately, this whole work has not been committed because of a
lack of enthusiasm, and also because few people cared to test the
patch.

It should be possible to revive those patches if enough ppl care to help out.

Guillaume
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