[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] SHOUTcast HTTP Support

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 07:16:47PM -0500, Micah F. Galizia wrote:
> Limiting the probe buffer size is much easier since we will just
> accept the stream as MP3 with a low score (25) after 32KB.

The problem is that there might be a lot of metadata in the worst case,
and that might even end up in the middle of a MP3 header.
Lastly, what you pass to the MP3 demuxer definitely isn't (raw) MP3,
so with future probe improvements it probably should return 0, not
just a low score.