[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Preliminary musepack support

[Nico Sabbi]

Guillaume POIRIER wrote:

>Out of curiosity, is that supposed to be a trick to save as much bits
>as possible, and rely as much as possible on the intelligence of the
>demuxer/decoder ?
>... or is that bad design?
>
>  
>

everything that needs extradata is _very_bad_ design, imo.
Codecs can be made very simple and efficient, look at mpeg1/2/3 and to
a lesser extend ac3 and aac with adts syntax. Unfortunately there's a 
real craze
to use extradata that takes nothing good and overcomplicates demuxing 
and decoding
 
 
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