[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 574169] [avidemux] Add theora support (or not)

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Edward Hervey changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|[Theora]Why avidemux doesn't|[avidemux] Add theora
                   |have 'ANY' as src caps?     |support (or not)




------- Comment #3 from Edward Hervey  2009-03-06 07:30 UTC -------
So adding the 'THEO' <=> video/x-theora mapping in libgstriff only helped a
little bit.

There are many issues left:
* There is a 'codec_data' field exposed by the demuxer... but we have no clue
what's contained in it.
* The decoder complains about not having received the header packets

I tried assuming the codec_data field was the header packet... but it's not.

To put it another way : VirtualDub/ffdshow are the only software apparently
that can produce (and supposedly handle?) the combination of avi+theora. I
couldn't find *any* document for how you're supposed to map theora in avi
containers.

I would strongly recommend choosing either:
* another video codec
* or use the ogg container format

The files you're creating will be readable only by ffdshow (hmm... can you
actually read them with ffdshow?)... 


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