[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 313266] Will not play DTS stream in malformed WAV

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 GStreamer | gst-plugins-good | Ver: HEAD CVS





------- Comment #6 from Tim-Philipp Müller  2006-02-23 11:20 UTC -------
Created an attachment (id=59993)
 --> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=59993&action=view)
possible fix


Patch that delays pad creation until after we've had a chance to sniff the
first few bytes of the data to determine whether it's dts-in-wav or not. If it
is, patch amends caps to audio/x-dts before adding the pad. We need to delay
pad creation for decodebin.

Putting this into bugzilla only for now, as there has been disagreement whether
we want to do things like this or not.

Technically, it's a broken file. If it says it's PCM raw data and then it's
not, that's just wrong and shouldn't have created like this in the first place.

Unfortunately, there are quite a few files like this in the wild and mplayer,
xine, and vlc all play them, only we don't. Me, I think we should strive to
play those files, just like we work around broken tags or other things that
aren't correct according to spec.


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