[MPlayer-dev-eng] NUT cleanup

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Tue Sep 6 03:23:28 CEST 2005


On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 02:52:32AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:07:35PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> [...]
> > > > 3. The spec doesn't say how you put the index "per stream", it only says to 
> > > > put a single index... Rich said entire index should be repeated for each 
> > > > stream, spec should mention this.
> > > 
> > > yes it should be >=1 index per stream, feel free to fix the spec
> > 
> > Hmm, >=1? why the > part? The only place it's possible to store the
> > index is the end, and repeating it there isn't very useful..
> 
> its possible to store a duplicate anywhere within the file, it requires
> rewriting the file yes ...
> if its usefull iam not sure, probably not but it shouldnt be invalid,
> demuxers must be able to skip "junk" :)

Yes, demuxers must be able to skip junk, but t's also invalid for the
muxer to write junk. IMO it should be invalid to write an index
anywhere but at the end of the file.

Rich




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