[Theora] trying to encode from dvd using mplayer

[David Kuehling]

>>>>> "Arc" == Arc Riley <arc at xiph.org> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:08:35PM +0100, David Kuehling wrote:
>>  > That's how I got around it.  Just use the unix "cat" command to
>> join > the files..
>> 
>> > cat >>piece1.ogg piece2.ogg piece3.ogg piece4.ogg
>> 
>> Works in theory, but I'm not sure how many players can cope with such
>> files...?

> Anything that implements Ogg correctly.  Oh, that's almost
> nothing. Hmm.  Well, you could help me with the various work nessesary
> to get libogg2 out, and thereby, solve this incompatability problem
> across the board...

the mplayer people seem to consider any demuxer that requires an
external library to be wronlgy designed...  last thing i read on
mplayer-dev was that somebody considered backporting the native
mplayer-g2 ogg demuxer (that doesn't need libogg).  also not sure how
libogg2 helps with the .ogm demuxing.

just thinking about the right upgrade-path for mplayer.  maybe create a
new ogg demuxer for vorbis/theora and then, if it works and gets
accepted, add more .ogm-compatability stuff to it?  And if the mplayer
people can be persuaded to allow a libogg2 dependant demuxer, could this
be an acceptable effort?

sorry for the mplayer-centric view.  with my crappy computer (and all
the crappy video-files and crappy dvb-t reception) i just seem to depend
on all that neat video filters that only mplayer has.

btw what is it that needs to be done for libogg2?  (wrong mailing list
to ask?)

regards,

david
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