[MPlayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS/tech mpcf.txt,1.67,1.68

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 12:29:08AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > maybe we should just drop the index mess and return to a single index at
> > > the end, it would be so much simpler for the muxer and demuxer and damage
> > > to the index could be detected very quickly while still allowing (slow)
> > > seeking in damaged files
> > > rich whats your oppinion about that?
> >
> > I like it a lot. But I still think we need a good way for dealing with
> > excessive numbers of keyframes, e.g. audio, while still seeking to the
> > nearest keyframe (including all keyframes). This is orthogonal from
> > what we've been talking about but I'd still like to know if you have a
> > clean solution for it.
> 
> see max_index_distance, it was always there, you didnt like it IIRC, but i 
> dunno why

hmm, it looks reasonable to me now. so, to find a given keyframe, you
just use the index to get the previous and next indexed ones then
linear search in between... sounds good.

rich