I don't really think thats fair. a VCD .dat file doesn't look like a
.mpg file, the system streams don't start until after the extra headers.
I guess calling it a .mpg forces Xine to assume its an mpeg file and to
search through until it finds something that looks like an mpeg stream.
You could look at the code...
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 04:52:57PM +0100, John P. Looney wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:37:44PM +0100, Martin Donlon mentioned:
> > Xine handles .dat vcd files, just rename it to .mpg
> > VCD .dat files are just MPEG1 files with a small header on top, I'm not
> > too sure how many bytes need to be snipped though.
>> Is the thing so braindead that it gets the data type from the filetype ?
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