[NUT-devel] Fourcc spec

[Baptiste Coudurier]

Oded Shimon wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>> Ok but please do not put them in riff.c ;)
>> no, and add a syntax element to the stream headers which says which
>> type of codec id is used avi style or nut style (or qt style) hmm
>> i do think you can copy and paste the text from matroska that will
>> save some time
>>
>> if this gets accepted we have surpassed avi and mov in brokenness
>> several seperate codec id systems
> 
> I really really don't care what the actual values are, for all I care they 
> can be this list below, which AFAIK are all AVI values (except "vrbs"). 
> The point is to have some kind of fourcc spec which is normative for 
> demuxers, and informative for muxers. As we saw the confusion of me and 
> you not knowing what fourcc should be used for mp3 in NUT...
> 

Yes, priority to twocc values. Can a guideline be added like, use avi
video fourcc if it does not collide to other containers, and twocc for
audio if it exists ?

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