[Ffmpeg-devel] Wrong duration in a nut container

[Måns Rullgård]

Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 11:02:23AM +0200, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
>> Hi,
>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:31:00AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> > and if the file is on something non seekable?
>> > its a question which is more important, the validity of the duration
>> > field in randomly cut raw pieces or the availabilty of the duration 
>> > in non seekable streams
>> 
>> Well, my opinion is that knowing the duration in non-seekable streams is
>> not so important - especially since in quite a few applications
>> (e.g. streaming) the duration will not be known anyway.
>> Also adding the duration at a special place also means one more piece of
>> redundant information - and from my experience with multimedia, this
>> means in at least 1% of cases this will just contain some random crap
>> :-(.
>> But the approach of seeking to the end and reading the last timestamp
>> reminds me a lot of MPEG where this just doesn't work at all...
>
> It only fails on mpeg because mpeg is allowed to have broken
> timestamps. NUT strictly forbids timestamp discontinuity and
> nonmonotonicity.

Can NUT support never-ending streams like DVB?  The only way to avoid
timestamp wrapping is to use a large number of bits for the timestamp,
and we all know you wouldn't like that.

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