[Ffmpeg-cvslog] r6963 - trunk/libavformat/riff.c

[Oded Shimon]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 06:18:08PM +0100, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer a ?crit :
> >Hi
> >
> >On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 04:49:53PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >>Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
> >>
> >>>fully agree, iam sick of this "a number called fourcc is worse then a 
> >>>number
> >>>used in mpeg-ps" thing
> >>You're (intentionally?) misunderstanding me.  You can call the tags
> >>fourcc if you like; I don't mind.  The difference is that the tables
> >>in mpeg-ps/ts are only claimed to apply to mpeg-ps/ts, whereas you are
> >>treating the avi tables as something universal.
> >
> >yes, and?
> >the mpeg-ps/ts tables only support a few codecs, if they would support
> >as many as avi we could use them, we could also take the mov tables
> >instead of avi, but that would not change anything
> >or _you_ could make a table with all codecs which have a fourcc in avi
> >and give each of them a different fourcc for nut then _you_ can maintain
> >this table until arrival of godot, that would work too but there are
> 
> I proposed it on nut mailing. You all obviously deliberatly forgot and 
> ignored it.

The curse of bikeshed, you wrote something well thought out and "complex" 
and everyone just ignored it and assumed it is ok. :) (the power plant 
next to the bikeshed..)

Just write the list. Do 'svn add fourcc.txt' in nut/docs/ .

- ods15