[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] special "broken DV" demuxer

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 09:18:56AM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 04:40:13PM -0700, Roman V Shaposhnik wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 18:28 +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > > in our samples there is one horribly broken DV file:
> > > http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/V-codecs/DVSD/pond.dv
> > > As far as I can tell (with my limited understanding of the DV format)
> > > this is basically some DV headers "randomly" placed and then
> > > the data essential to decoding DV written over it.
> > 
> > Huh? pond.dv used to be a perfectly good DV sample.
> 
> My judgement is limited since I never read the DV spec, but I find it
> hard to believe that a file without header, audio or video sections,
> half of the bits marked as "reserved, must be 1" in our encoder set to 0
> etc. qualifies as "perfectly good".

Ive not checkd the spec but in general i interpret "reserved" as
* encoder must set it to the value the specific spec says
* decoder must not depend on its value
* future specs may use reserved values differently and thus future
  encoders may set them to different values.

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