[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]Add little-endian G726 decoder and use it for Sun AU files

Paul B Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Thu Jul 11 15:38:38 CEST 2013


On 7/11/13, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
> Paul B Mahol <onemda <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> >> Anyway having another decoder is really ugly, you could
>> >> make use of extradata to have/force same funcionality.
>> >
>> > Wouldn't that brake remuxing?
>>
>> Extradata should be keept when remuxing.
>
> And how will WMP (or any other player) know
> that the FFmpeg developers decided to define
> extradata for a 20-year old codec?
>
> Apart from the fact that I don't understand
> what the problem is having an additional
> codec I think the FFmpeg architecture
> requires an additional codec if different
> riff tags are used for two variants of the
> "same" codec (as in this case).

IIRC wasn't there also some le variant in mov demuxer too?

Or its another codec...


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