DVD (video) and Fedora

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat Feb 7 23:55:45 UTC 2009


Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> 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).

I think it would make more sense to just fix xine-lib's native Ogg support.
FFmpeg doesn't look amenable to splitting to me, given its monolithic
architecture.

        Kevin Kofler




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