[MPlayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS/tech mpcf.txt,1.67,1.68

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Friday 04 March 2005 01:13, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 06:23:41PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > passes (it has to do some nasty hacks to leave space). in fact, since
> > offsets could change after filling in the indices and removing
> > inefficiency, it's even difficult to make a valid file with two
> > passes!
>
> actually with your hack of deciding modulo last, it's probably ok. BUT
> this adds an additional problem: you don't know how many vlc bytes
> will be needed for modulo until you finish writing the file, so even
> the size of the global header might have to change! :(

all vlc fields can be prefixed with 0x80 without changing their value

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Michael

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