[MPlayer-users] MPlayer mkv 'link' support

[Sébastien Mazy]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Mikle Krutov <nekoexmachina at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've seen some .mkv files with 'links' inside, it's matroska feature to
> include same video file into many containers, as i know. (e.g. if we've got
> foo.mkv, bar.mkv & foo.avi, and foo|bar.mkv has link to foo.avi inside it, on
> windows's MPC with haali media splitter it will play foo.avi while
> playing foo|bar.mkv with the timing that is written in the link)

Yes, it's a great feature of matroska, useful when you have a lot of
episodes with the same opening for instance.

> Does mplayer support {is there any plans to include support for it in
> future releases} that any way?

Not currently, but this was discussed recently on this mailing-list
(or ffmpeg I don't remember) and Anton Khirnov even provided a patch.
I think he's still working on polishing his patch but it has worked
great for me so far.

Cheers,

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Sébastien Mazy