[MPlayer-dev-eng] NUT type 2 frames

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Tuesday 20 April 2004 22:26, Ville Saari wrote:
> Shouldn't the startcodes of type 2 frames be part of the container instead
> of a particular stream? When the file is played, there's usually more than
> just one stream being used and all those streams must have a keyframe at or
> near a seek point if they are supposd to be blayed, but only one startcode
> is needed to find that point. If there are n streams, then there must be n
> startcodes at each seek point of which n-1 are just waste of space and
> complicate the seeking.
>
> What if the startcode is removed from the frame and made a packet on its
> own instead? A startcode packet followed by a startcodeless type 2 frame
> would be bit-by-bit equivalent to current type 2 frame, but the
> startcode could then be omitted from all but one stream to save bits.
hmm, i think u missunderstand it, not all keyframes are type 2 frames, so a 
seek point has 1 startcode not n

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