[MPlayer-users] A question on codecs

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 01:14:21PM +0200, Ingo Brückl wrote:
> I have a captured wmv live stream that makes MPlayer/Linux printing
> 
>   Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: /usr/share/mplayer/codecs/wmv9dmod.dll
> 
> and suggesting the download of the binary codecs package.
> 
> But playback is just fine without it, and after getting the codec I cannot
> spot any difference.
> 
> So, what would the codec be good for?

FFmpeg (the decoder used if it is not available) does not support
interlaced VC-1 and there probably are some cases where it is
not bit-exact.