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Hi,

I have three questions, regarding h.264 playing.

1. I have seen that the vlc player uses the FFMPEG decoder for playing h.264 streams. Are there any more decoders that can be used?

2. Regarding h.264 and any other format: Is there a way to choose which decoder to use, either at run time or at compile time?

3. I am trying to play an "h.264 interlace" stream, in the activex plugin, and it crushes the plugin. The same stream plays fine on the vlc exe player.
Do you know about this issue? Is there a fix for that?

Thanks,
Avi

Hi,

I have three questions, regarding h.264 playing.

1. I have seen that the vlc player uses the FFMPEG decoder for playing h.264 streams. Are there any more decoders that can be used?

2. Regarding h.264 and any other format: Is there a way to choose which decoder to use, either at run time or at compile time?

3. I am trying to play an "h.264 interlace" stream, in the activex plugin, and it crushes the plugin. The same stream plays fine on the vlc exe player.
Do you know about this issue? Is there a fix for that?

Thanks,
Avi

1. With normal VLC, not really (QT doesn't work)
2. Both.
3. Very weird. VLC version?

Thanks for your answer.

Can you please be more specific regarding question no. 2?

Regarding question no. 3, VLC version is 0.9.8a.

Well, difficult, since I don't know exactly what you are trying to do.

You can choose the decoder with --codec and the demuxer with --demux, but on Windows, I believe the only H264 decoder is avcodec.

Thanks.

I am using the activex plugin.
Can you please tell me how do I configure the plugin to use a certain decoder (I need this for other decoders, not just h264), at compile time?

Change the capability score.