[MPlayer-dev-eng] container format

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Thursday 06 February 2003 17:47, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 04:22:09PM +0000, Mark Zealey wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 04:48:58PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > anyway, first draft of the MPlayer container format is in
> > > DOCS/tech/mpcf.txt comments VERY welcome :)
> >
> > Few ideas:-
> > 1) From a purely readability perspective - could you put your type
> > definitions at the top of the file...
>
> Probably not worth the cvslog spam to change...
IMHO its worth it, a unreadable doc is far worse, then a unreadable log (the 
main purpose of a doc is to be read ...)

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> > 3) Much as i don't like the ogg container format - could we have
> > something like theirs whereby all of the title and author and so on are
> > just stored in one text area, a header type with some standard headers
> > like 'Author:' and 'Title:', \n-seperated, or maybe \0 seperated with a
> > byte-count before the text.
>
> Hmm, at first I was thinking this was sorta nonsense anyway, but I
> guess we want our format to be good for audio-only files as well as
> movies. This brings up another point -- repeating headers in
> audio-only files could be a lot more expensive (percentage-wise) than
> in movie files...
hmm, yes, thats a problem

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Michael