[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Preliminary musepack support

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 5/10/05, Moritz Bunkus <moritz at bunkus.org> wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On Tuesday 10 May 2005 11:18, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> > Is the decoding of Matroska movie files also supposed to work with a
> > Musepack audio track?
> 
> There's currently no support for Musepack in Matroska. The reason is
> that Musepack's current bitstream format has blocks depending on up to
> 32 prior blocks (or something like that).

Out of curiosity, is that supposed to be a trick to save as much bits
as possible, and rely as much as possible on the intelligence of the
demuxer/decoder ?
... or is that bad design?

Regards,
Guillaume