[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPCF Draft/Discussion (MPlayer ContainerFormat)

Robert R. Wal rrw at hell.pl
Fri Feb 7 21:11:40 CET 2003


On 03.02.07 Michael Niedermayer pressed the following keys:

> > - maybe there is no simple better way, but if 1 bit is broken in
> > the forward/backward pointer, that can't be detected to well, and a clever
> > demuxer will crash than imho
> why?! if the ptr is wrong it will point to random data, so the backward 
> pointer there wont point back, its detectable

Does this mean that

1. all pointers are absolute, or
2. pointers are relative and backward pointer is implicitelly negative

?

Robert

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