[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS/tech mpcf.txt,1.64,1.65

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Saturday 11 September 2004 21:18, D Richard Felker III wrote:
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> 4. further, info data may change over time, e.g. for a network stream
>    with multiple songs. it makes sense to allow info packets to appear
>    anywhere in the file, and apply until they're replaced by a new
>    info packet later. 

i surely agree, that info packets should be interleaveable but i disagree that 
the start/stop should be specified by the placement of the next info packet, 
instead the start/stop time should be stored in the info packets, so that 
they are still valid if they would all be at the file start
one problem of your suggestion is that it provides significantly less 
information, just imagine staring playback in the middle of a song, either we 
dont repeat info packets in which case the user would not know what he is 
listening too, or we do but then he would not know the position within the 
song, or how much time there is until the next song
additionally if we dont repeat these packets theres the issue with loosing one

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Michael
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