Hi, > 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 ?
It could... MPlayer looks at the content and ignores extension... I don't know about videolan, Kabi? :) btw, we're on wrong list, don't you think? :) A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team -- Developer of MPlayer, the Movie Player for Linux - http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu _______________________________________________ Avifile mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://prak.org/mailman/listinfo/avifile
