From: Siggi L. <si...@us...> - 2002-10-28 22:06:55
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On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Guenter Bartsch wrote: > > You could use the config options to assign certain (wrong) file extensions > > to the correct demuxer, eg if you download an MPEG file named "movie.avi" > > from the internet and still want to play it. > > i don't think this makes any sense - it would be much easier to rename > the file in that case - and besides that, detection-by-content is rarely > used now as content detection is implemented in most demuxers (i still > wonder why it was broken in nearly every demuxer i looked at). That doesn't help if you're trying the file from a web server that you can only access via http. (I admit that's an exotic case, but it happened.) Well, I'm keen on seeing the new MRL syntax that will allow to work around all this :-)) Cheers, Siggi |