[Ffmpeg-devel] Shorten audio FourCC

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 09 October 2006 at 00:58, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 12:38:47AM +0200, Roberto Togni wrote:
> > On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 23:33:13 +0200
> > Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 03:27:47PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > > Shorten audio is not yet supported by MPlayer since it lacks a FourCC in
> > > > libavformat/riff.c.  Now adding one would be easy, but the question is
> > > > which one to choose.  The obvious choice would be 'shn', but that's just
> > > > three characters.  So maybe 'shor' or 'shn '.
> > > 
> > > i vote for shor or shrt
> > > 
> > 
> > What about shrn? It contains all the letters of the shn extension.
> > If not shrt is better than shor imho
> 
> iam fine with all of them choose whichever you prefer

I like shrn. It is good to have the last letter the same as the last letter
of the codec name.

Regards,
R.

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