[Ffmpeg-devel] Shorten audio FourCC

[Måns Rullgård]

Diego Biurrun said:
> 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 '.
>
> Then again, in libavcodec/shorten.c is the following code snippet:
>
>   /* shorten signature */
>   if (get_bits_long(&s->gb, 32) != bswap_32(ff_get_fourcc("ajkg"))) {
>   av_log(s->avctx, AV_LOG_ERROR, "missing shorten magic 'ajkg'\n");
>
> Does 'ajkg' have any further relationship with Shorten?  Should it be
> used as the FourCC?

RIFF files use 16-bit IDs for audio.  Adding a bogus 32-bit ID there to work
around design limitations in mplayer is unacceptable IMO.

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