[MPlayer-dev-eng] NUT, what's left

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:37:29AM +0300, Oded Shimon wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 10:06:20AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > 3. info packets... how should they be used at all
> > 
> > see attached patch
> 
> Nice patch, but i'm utterly confused.
> 
> 1. you should clarify now that 'metadata' stream means an only info packets 
>    stream, and not some other random metadata.

This was stated somewhere.

> 2. since info packets are now literal frames in streams, you can have 
>    multiple info streams? they have pts's and their own time base? they 
>    should all be marked as key frames? (doesn't really matter).

Info frames in streams are different from ones placed with the
headers. The former (naturally) have pts, keyframe flag, etc.

> 3. why do we still need info_startcode? it can be removed.

I don't understand what it's used for now, but I'm not so sure.

> 4. what do you mean by pts difference of zero? it's identical to the 
>    stream's "last_pts"? why not just use '0'? it makes more sense (they are 
>    at the begginning, apply globally, sound like '0' to me).

No, they're not.

> 5. do these streams deserve an index?...

Most definitely. The point is that you can find chapter information
quickly via the index.

Rich