[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] SHOUTcast HTTP Support

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 07:42:58AM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 07:16:47PM -0500, Micah F. Galizia wrote:
> > Limiting the probe buffer size is much easier since we will just
> > accept the stream as MP3 with a low score (25) after 32KB.
> 
> The problem is that there might be a lot of metadata in the worst case,
> and that might even end up in the middle of a MP3 header.
> Lastly, what you pass to the MP3 demuxer definitely isn't (raw) MP3,
> so with future probe improvements it probably should return 0, not
> just a low score.

we arent that big asshats yet to reject truncated mp3 as "not mp3" in the
probe code. ffmpegs goal always was to do the best it can with the worst
broken files the user feeded it

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Asymptotically faster algorithms should always be preferred if you have
asymptotical amounts of data
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