On Friday 12 April 2002 01:42, Siggi Langauf wrote:
> 1) It's not an AVI file and yor xine is not able to determine the correct
>    demuxer. You usually get an error message that says something like "no
>    demuxer for ..." or "demuxer failed". In that case, you can probably
>    still play the file after renaming it:
>    Try the command "file xxx.avi", which will tell you if it's actually an
>    ASF or MPEG file. If it's an ASF, for example, just rename it and try
>    again:
>    mv xxx.avi xxx.asf; xine xxx.asf

Hmm, Does that mean xine looks at the extension of a file to determine which 
demuxer to use ? If so, can't it look at the file content and then chose the 
demuxer ?

....,
Marcel Janssen



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