[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] flac demuxer

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:47:14PM -0700, Mike Melanson wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > huh? If the codec bitstream supports a smaller last frame the container
> > wont make it bigger or make it dissapear.
> 
> I always assumed that, because non-lossless compressors are necessarily
> lossy, they can take liberties with padding out a frame with silent
> samples. Is this not done in practice?

It is, but where is the relation to containers? If the decoder outputs
fewer samples for the last packet theres nothing the container can do.
lossy codecs generally dont support such partial packets, lossless codecs
do or should.

Flac allows the blocksize to be expplicitly coded so the last packet can be
smaller, theres no relation to the container.

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