[NUT-devel] r19110 - trunk/DOCS/tech/nut.txt

[Måns Rullgård]

Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:

> and there are many codecs which have several chunks
> all the mpeg variants do, but they have startcodes so its a non issue

Hmm... I've never heard of MPEG1/2 stored with OOB data.  Have I been
looking in the wrong places?

> h.264 does too but with, the startcode prefixes being optional, IMHO we 
> should just require the startcode prefixes to be in there ...

Makes sense.

> then there are some mov based codecs like qdm2 which maybe need several
> chunks, they currently simply copy a whole set of mov chunks blindly
> into extradata in ffmpeg, that of course is a terrible mess which
> someone should fix in ffmpeg ...

Whoever designs codecs like that should be shot.

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