[MPlayer-users] Re: Free audio codec for .AVI files ?

[Alexander Noé]

Jan Knutar wrote:

>>5. MKV wastes a considerable amount of space (though not as much as
>>   OGM) on overhead, mainly due to the horrible "EBML" encoding and
>>   useless checksums.
>>    
>>
>
>I'm puzzled by checksums... I mean... What can they do other than say 
>"this frame is broken"
>
Nothing

>, or something such, a fact which would be 
>discovered anyway, when attempting to decode that frame and having to 
>try conceal the errors?
>  
>
No one currently writes any check sums for non-level-1 elements...any i 
hope no one ever
writes a CRC for each block...


Alex