On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:26:14AM -0400, Justin Ruggles wrote:
> On 06/17/2011 05:06 AM, Kostya wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 09:54:43AM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> >> Kostya Shishkov <[email protected]> writes:
> >>
> >>> This is needed because not all players (e.g. MPlayer) are able to 
> >>> distinguish
> >>> two different Bink audio decoders when codec_tag is set.
> >>> ---
[..]
> >>
> >> I'm not sure which abuse is worse.
> > 
> > Flip a coin then. I don't know myself.
> > But feel free to read doxy for codec_tag in avcodec.h to make it even more
> > confusing.
> 
> 
> This solution isn't too bad. At least it is using actual data from the
> global header.

The bink video decoder also uses codec_tag to to distinguish different versions.
While I have no objection to the above, we ought to agree on the same approach
for both audio and video codecs.

-- Peter
(A907 E02F A6E5 0CD2 34CD 20D2 6760 79C5 AC40 DD6B)
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