[MPlayer-dev-eng] container format

[Mark Zealey]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 04:48:58PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:

> anyway, first draft of the MPlayer container format is in DOCS/tech/mpcf.txt
> comments VERY welcome :)

Few ideas:-
1) From a purely readability perspective - could you put your type definitions
   at the top of the file...
2) Why does sz always have to be at least 1 character long - why cant it just be
   a null?
3) Much as i don't like the ogg container format - could we have something like
   theirs whereby all of the title and author and so on are just stored in one
   text area, a header type with some standard headers like 'Author:' and
   'Title:', \n-seperated, or maybe \0 seperated with a byte-count before the
   text.
4) Possible use of compression on text, for example the headers (point 3) and
   the subtitles.. The compression would be done on the whole text basis and
   then maybe split up into the parts. Of course, the compression would only be
   done where it was favourable...

Just my two pence..

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