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VLC Demuxers

Postby nikola23 » 20 May 2010 06:27

I've always wondered this. Why does VLC use its own demuxers instead of the ones provided by libavformat?

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Re: VLC Demuxers

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 20 May 2010 16:52

History, mainly. And because libavformat isn't always great...
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