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

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Friday 04 March 2005 01:57, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:33:46AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > 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
>
> is that legal? iirc at one point we had a rule against padding..

i see no reason why it shouldnt be legal

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Michael

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