[gst-devel] autoplug(?) ac3dec/mad bug

[David I. Lehn]

* Wim Taymans <wim.taymans at chello.be> [20010818 06:26]:
> On 18 Aug 2001 05:32:49 -0400, David I. Lehn wrote:
> > I was trying to play a vob with cvs code and gstmediaplay.  It decides
> > to hook up "mad" instead of "ac3dec" for the audio!  This works fine in
> > 0.2.1 so something has changed since then.
> 
> pure luck :) The autoplugger we use is a static one. mpeg2parse can
> either output mp3 or ac3, the autoplugger picks one (without even
> looking at the stream), if you're lucky it has guessed it right and you
> have sound.
> 
> A dynamic autoplugger (one with knowledge of the data) can solve this
> problem.
>  

hmm... pure bad luck you mean.

so, my next question is (obviously):
how can I convince you to write a dynamic autoplugger? ;)

-dave
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