[NUT-devel] r21189 - trunk/DOCS/tech/nut.txt

[Ralph Giles]

On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 01:51:34PM +0100, michael wrote:

> if anyone disagrees or has suggestions to improve it then shout

> +    codec_specific_data SHOULD contain exactly the essential global packets
> +    needed to decode a stream, more specifically it SHOULD NOT contain packets
> +    which contain only non essential metadata like author, title, ...

For codecs with required stream-embedded metadata like ours, I think 
this is just making work for the muxer. I'd allow such packets, and
instead say that implementations SHOULD maintain and prefer 
container-level metadata with NUT. The packet should be there, even
if it's minimal.

 -r