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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 07:46:59PM +0100, Alexander Noé wrote:
> 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...

OGM already does write CRC for each block, and I believe MKV does too.

Rich