[vlc-devel] [PATCH 2/7] Support for rotated MP4 Movies (bug #2882)

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On 17 Feb, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote :
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:59:04 +0100, Matthias Keiser
> <matthias at tristan-inc.com> wrote:
> > Am 17.02.2014 um 09:47 schrieb Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>:
> > 
> >> I already told you it cannot ever work that way. Chicken and egg.
> > 
> > You wrote "depending on what I mean", so that is what I mean. 
> > Could you give additional hints as to what exactly the chicken and egg
> > problem is here?
> 
> When would you invoke the new control request? You cannot call it until
> after the video output plugin has been activated, and yet by that point,
> the video format is already fixed...

Sure, but how is that a problem that the video format is fixed already?

With my kindest regards,

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