[MPlayer-users] recorded H.264-HD not playing

[Nico Sabbi]

Dietmar Hofer wrote:

>thanks alot.
>Btw. is it difficult/unpossible to recognize the video codec on it's own? How 
>can this work with ffdshow in Windows?
>Maybe I'll take a look to the src code to understand more (if it doesn't scare 
>me too much ;-)
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It's possible: when in doubt try to build a slave demuxer forcing the type:
DEMUXER_TYPE_H264_ES or DEMUXER_TYPE_MPEG4_ES, and if the slave
demuxer succeeds close it and assign sh_video->format.
Yet it's slow and inefficient, so I don't advise it.

Please, don't top post.