DVD (video) and Fedora

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 07 February 2009 at 10:04, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> >On Friday, 06 February 2009 at 00:39, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> >>Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> >>>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.
> >>But this means we need to get xine-lib fixed. I think both Theora and/or
> >>Vorbis in MKV and Dirac in Ogg may get more common. There's not even a way
> >>supported by xine-lib to use Dirac video with Vorbis audio, that's 
> >>horribly
> >>broken!
> >
> >I believe FFmpeg's libavformat supports Dirac and Vorbis in mkv.
> 
> Won't be useful by default in Fedora unless ffmpeg separates support 
> like Gstreamer does.

Unfortunately, libavformat links to libavcodec to use its bitstream reader
and utility functions, and because IIUC some codecs that require special
handling for demuxing can't be detected without decoding a little of the
bitstream. I could probably try to build a stripped-down version of libavcodec
that doesn't contain the problematic codecs, but I don't really have time
for that (help is welcome).

Regards,
R.

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