[MPlayer-dev-eng] NUT cleanup

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:07:51AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 10:22:19PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 01:39:52AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:26:52PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:55:42AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > > > Hi
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 07:47:55PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > > > [...]
> > > > > > > ok the obvious solution is to place that in the info stream
> > > > > > > its just that the player is probably not going to find these how should it?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Looking at index. Or backpointers at syncpoints when seeking without
> > > > > > index.
> > > > > 
> > > > > ok but how exactly should that work, my lets say 3h movie would have 200 
> > > > > info frames in the index and i would like to know the title(s) of all parts
> > > > > what should the player do, read all info frames?
> > > > 
> > > > Hmm, I see the problem. But I don't know a good solution. You're good
> > > > at these things; maybe you have an idea for making info easy to find
> > > > while also allowing dynamic info?
> > > 
> > > * store info stuff in several streams, so that "chapter/part descriptions" 
> > > like author/title/... are in their own while other less interresting things
> > > are in a different stream
> > > * mark repeated frames somehow in the index
> > 
> > Are you suggesting both together? 
> 
> yes
> 
> 
> > I don't see how #1 helps without #2.
> > Still this seems very hackish.. I feel like there _should_ be an
> > elegant way to deal with this.
> 
> well, if you think theres a better way then find and propose it

I'll try. :(

> or just drop
> the 1pass muxing restriction

IMO it's not related to this. I don't care if someone has to do a
second pass to put chapter data in (actually they shouldn't since the
chapter boundaries should be known in advance). The problem is what to
do with live streams, which (afaik) was the main purpose you had in
mind for new info packets mid-file..

Rich