State of AVC+MKV playback?

[RedDwarf69]

Ok, I'm lazy, but can someone say me the actual situation in Linux?
For what I read on ffdshow development thread seems last libavcodec plays nero AVC correctly, but there is a stable version of vlc, gstreamer, xine or vlc that uses it or I must compile from CVS?
And what about matroska support, works with AVC?

[Mosu]

Originally posted by RedDwarf69
Ok, I'm lazy, but can someone say me the actual situation in Linux?
For what I read on ffdshow development thread seems last libavcodec plays nero AVC correctly, but there is a stable version of vlc, gstreamer, xine or vlc that uses it or I must compile from CVS?

As far as I know full support for AVC (especially for B frames) is only about a week old in ffmpeg. So you won't have any luck with any releases of those players. You'll have to compile at least the release version of the player with current CVS version of ffmpeg.

And what about matroska support, works with AVC?

Only in mplayer. Which reminds me -- I haven't checked in my patch for that yet... So it WILL work with mplayer in a couple of minutes ;)

[RedDwarf69]

Originally posted by Mosu
Only in mplayer. Which reminds me -- I haven't checked in my patch for that yet... So it WILL work with mplayer in a couple of minutes ;)

Ok, then I have time to encode something :D

[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC), -vid 0 xD

[shevegen]

gosh i smell the bleeding developer edge ...


LET ME FALL INTO THIS PIT TOO ;)

[Joe Fenton]

I just got the latest gstreamer-ffmpeg via yum yesterday. It's the latest build. You might try that.