[MPlayer-dev-eng] ogg stream behaviour
Daniel Holth
dholth at fastmail.fm
Sat Feb 21 09:41:01 CET 2004
mplayer developers,
I would like to improve mplayer's support for ogg/theora video and want
to know what the rules are for changing the video mode.
right now, mplayer doesn't know what to do when it receives an ogg page
with a new stream id #, after successfully and beautifully streaming a
particular set of stream id#s. what it should do, is treat that page
onward as if it was opening a brand new ogg (theora, vorbis, flac)
stream. instantiating new codecs and all.
but, the new data could have a very different audio samplerate+channels
or video size. will it work? how do I tell mplayer about the change?
when this improvement is done,
cat theora.ogg theora.ogg > theoras.ogg ; mplayer theoras.ogg
plays the video in theora.ogg twice;
cat theora1.ogg theora2.ogg theora3.ogg > many.ogg ; mplayer many.ogg
plays three different videos that are chained together in that single
many.ogg file.
more to the point, mplayer will become the newest, shiniest, onliest
iceast-video client. at the moment mplayer quits after each separate
video in a stream of videos, and it has to be restarted to see the next
one. hopefully we will have the prototype icecast soon.
thanks a heap,
Daniel Holth
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