[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPCF Draft/Discussion (MPlayer ContainerFormat)

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Friday 07 February 2003 21:11, Robert R. Wal wrote:
> On 03.02.07 Michael Niedermayer pressed the following keys:
> > > - maybe there is no simple better way, but if 1 bit is broken in
> > > the forward/backward pointer, that can't be detected to well, and a
> > > clever demuxer will crash than imho
> >
> > why?! if the ptr is wrong it will point to random data, so the backward
> > pointer there wont point back, its detectable
>
> Does this mean that
>
> 1. all pointers are absolute, or
> 2. pointers are relative and backward pointer is implicitelly negative
2.

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Michael