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debian packaging: remove unnecessary rules 'get-orig-source' it was needlessly copied from Debian's packaging and was used to create a tarball suitable for the debian archive. This script never existed in the mplayer development tree and is unnecessary.
author siretart
date Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:39:36 +0000
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MPlayer's Dump Stream Formats
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Designed by Alex & Arpi

The file starts with a variable size header:
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32-bit  Stream format fourcc (MPVS or MPAS)
        MPVS = MPlayer Video Stream
        MPAS = MPlayer Audio Stream
8-bit   Demuxer type (AVI,MOV,ASF,REAL,...)
8-bit   Flags (marks  dumped headers)
        Values: 0x1:  WAVEFORMATEX
                0x2:  Audio extra codec data
                0x4:  BITMAPINFOHEADER
                0x8:  QT's ImageDesc
                0x16: indicates 32-bit chunk size before every data chunk
16-bit  Length of headers

There's strict rule in the follow-up of the codec-headers.
Depending on flags,

Data chunks:
------------

32-bit  Optional 32-bit chunk size
...     Data