[matroska-devel] Re: AVI compatibility misunderstanding
Christian HJ Wiesner
chris at wiesneronline.net
Mon Feb 17 18:54:47 CET 2003
Moritz Bunkus wrote:
>Hi.
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>
>
>>- reconstruct all the data it needs to be able to call an audio
>>DirectShow filter ( MP3, AC3 ), maybe by storing WAVEFORMATEX info from
>>the most used codecs and channel setups ( AC3 2.0 , AC3 5.1 etc. ) in a
>>table somewhere, and by completing that when calling the filter
>>
>>
>
>Shouldn't each and every 'filter' or demuxer or whatever you may call
>it be able to do that without any WAVEFORMATEX structure stored in a
>Matroska file? That's what containers are about, isn't it?
>
Mosu,
once we will have UCI the matroska demuxer/parser will call UCI plugins
for that, we wont need DShow filters than anymore .... this is just a
contemporary solution until we have UCI or another working codec API,
and can start coding decoder plugins
Christian
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