[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] special "broken DV" demuxer

[Baptiste Coudurier]

On 3/11/2009 9:58 AM, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 05:29:40PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> May i suggest that people read and understand the dv specs before any further
>> hackery on the code?
> 
> Having access to the DV specs would be a prerequisite for that.
> Also, what to do with DV files that do not contain anything beyond the
> absolutely necessary data for decoding (which unfortunately at least
> libdv, and probably others, too, support, and FFmpeg supported in the
> past as well) and thus can not be autodetected is somewhat independent
> of what the spec says.

First, I suggest to enhance the probe code to increase a bit the score
when extention matches a known file format. This is what the DV demuxer
was using before the probe function unfortunately.

Then I suggest we revert the support of spacejam*.dv until we find an
adequate solution. "pond.dv" has IMHO preference since it was working
before.

Furthermore, I believe if we add a new demuxer for this case, we should
add a new demuxer for every format having a startcode and can be "in the
middle of a cd image". I find this definitely non reasonable.

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