[FFmpeg-devel] Fwd: [issue2563] AVI encoder create a file (contains multiple video and audio streams) with uncorrect fourcc tag

[compn]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:53:36 -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Luca Barbato <lu_zero at gentoo.org> wrote:
>> On 01/24/2011 05:44 PM, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>>> We should refuse to mux more than 100 streams in AVI, not do something
>>> random and contribute to the proliferation of broken AVI files.
>>
>> Out of curiosity, why 100 streams in avi? Since it's probably a custom
>> usage, using something more capable (nut, mkv) might help.
>
>Right, so we should error out in write_header(). Anyone want to update
>the patch to do that also?

would it be better to error if >100 streams, but have a way to create
such if needed? it seems like max_streams problem all over again. just
because we cant think of a use... unfair limits are unfair if within
specs?

-compn