[MPlayer-cvslog] CVS: main/libmpcodecs ve_lavc.c, 1.132, 1.133 ae_lavc.c, 1.8, 1.9

[Loren Merritt]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:34:15PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 03:15:22AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>>
>>> Xglobal= 0-3
>>> 0 default
>>> 1 write global headers only in extradata (needed for .mp4/mov/nut/...)
>>> 2 write global headers only infront of keyframes
>>> 3 = 1+2
>>>
>>> 1 should be set automatically if mp4/mov/... is used, this works in ffmpeg.c
>>>   but not in mencoder yet
>>
>> So something like the following will be correct in the man page?
>>
>> .TP
>> .B vglobal=<0\-3>
>> Control writing global video headers.
>> .PD 0
>> .RSs
>> .IPs 0
>> Do not write global headers (default).
>> .IPs 1
>> Write global headers only in extradata (needed for .mp4/MOV/NUT).
>> .IPs 2
>> Write global headers only in front of keyframes.
>> .IPs 3
>> Combine 1 and 2.
>> .
>> .TP
>> .B aglobal=<0\-3>
>> Same as vglobal for audio headers.
>
> Committed, I hope it's correct...

default (0) is whatever the codec feels like doing. I don't know if 
there's any concensus between codecs now.
The headers are always written somewhere, they're needed for decoding.

--Loren Merritt