DVD (video) and Fedora (was: FEL's commitment lineup)

Thu Feb 5 23:09:06 UTC 2009

On Friday, 06 February 2009 at 00:01, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > xine-lib, mplayer, and many others split the demuxing from the decoding.
> 
> Xine-lib splits some demuxers from some codecs, but they also have
> some "combined" plugins and the whole Ogg stack is in one of those, so
> AFAIK (and my experience confirms that) playing Ogg content in a non-Ogg
> container or non-Ogg content (including Dirac) in an Ogg container does not
> work. :-(

That's because the Ogg container was originally supposed to be used only for
Vorbis audio. It has since evolved into a mess. It should just be forgotten
and only pointed to as a bad example.

Regards,
R.

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