Hi, I have something to discuss for kaa.popcorn and hope for some input. First of all, kaa.popcorn can use mplayer, xine and gstreamer as backend. But what is the best backend to use? How can we know if the player can handle the file? Right now, there is an incomplete list of extentions the backend supports. Well, this doesn't work. Here an example: let's say you compile libxine without mp3 support (I did it once by misstake). How does popcorn know xine can't play a mp3 file? Is there a way to detect that xine has no mp3 support? Next question: can we play an avi? Yes we can if it has ac3 sound, no, we can't if it is mp3. Gstreamer with all its plugins is even worse.
So does the extention list makes any sense? I think there are some extentions we know a player can't play, but that's it. So do we need such extention list at all? Dischi -- Of course there's no reason for it, it's just our policy.
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