[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS/tech mpcf.txt,1.30,1.31

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Monday 08 September 2003 04:40, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 11:21:59PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > IMO it's stupid to store alternate encodings of the same content in
> > > the same file. If you want lq and hq copies for streaming, put them in
> > > separate files. I seem to recall this issue being discussed when mpcf
> > > (now nut) was first designed, and it didn't make any sense then
> > > either.
> >
> > hmm, maybe for nut, but its not true for scaleable codecs where its
> > possible to drop some data and decode the remainder as lower quality
> > version (mpeg4
>
> This is a neat idea, but imo the container shouldn't have to know
> about this. It complicates things too much for the player. A streaming
> server wanting to take advantage of codec features like this probably
> needs to be aware of the specific codec being used, demux the nut
> file, process the encoded video frames to cut it down to the desired
> bitrate, and then remux for each client. In any case, I don't think
> multiple stream id's in the container (nut) should be used for such a
> purpose...
i never said its related to nut, did i? it was just on offtopic comment...

>
> > > Let's keep metadata tags like this out of the main headers,
> > > and put them in optional info headers instead. Otherwise we make the
> > > same mistakes as matroska...
> >
> > agree (avg_bitrate should be moved to the info packet)
> >
> :)
>
> BTW, a general design principle IMO should be that the actual
> main/stream headers only contain information that's useful to the
> player app for playing the file. Anything that's only useful to a
> human for getting info/metadata about the file should go in info
> packets.
agree

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