On Saturday 13 April 2002 03:43, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> 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 ?

Oops, sorry for crossposting to the avifile list. Wasn't my intention.

Regards,
Marcel Janssen


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