[vlc-devel] [RFC] Need for our own ASF demuxer

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le tiistaina 3. marraskuuta 2020, 15.58.25 EET Paul B Mahol a écrit :
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 2:54 PM Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:
> > Le tiistaina 3. marraskuuta 2020, 14.07.23 EET Marvin Scholz a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I was wondering whats the need for VLC having its own ASF demux,
> > > are there files/streams that can not be handled by the libavformat
> > > ASF demux?
> > 
> > Yes. A quick look shows that the native demuxer supports controls that the
> > libavformat plugin does not.
> 
> Examples?

If you are curious, you can read the code. ASF not my area of expertise.

> Note that there are 2 asf demuxers in lavf.

I don't think it matters here. Though it's concerning in its own right, 
because it strongly implies that they have different bugs and limitations, and 
VLC would have a hard time picking the right one...

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