[Ffmpeg-devel] I'm giving up

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 04:44:56PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Ok, my bad for talking before actually reading code. That formatting in
> > global header capable containers could be a good idea though.
> > 
> > Would nut support that, what could make H264 in nut faster than any
> > other container ?
> 
> something like that does not belong to the container
> 
> the most sane thing IMHO would be to move the (un)escaping into a bitstream
> filter or AVParser, that way h264 with and without the escaping could be
> easily and quickly be handled independant of the container similar to the
> mp3 header compression (and it has the same compatibility issues of course)

Indeed, just give it a new fourcc/codecid and all is well.

Rich