[MPlayer-dev-eng] Lots of stuff for NUT

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:52:21PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
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> > avis design wasnt broken, it just wasnt
> > designed for variable framerate or codecs with dts!=pts
> 
> Yes it was. 24 bytes of overhead per frame, no seeking without index,
> noninterleaved files allowed (contradicting the name even!), 2gb
> filesize limit, ...

i think a 2gb limit at the time AVI was designed cant be considered that
broken, fixing this would have been trivial, what was done in ODML is
much more broken then anyhing avi ever had


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> > well the user might want to seek to the
> > future here but he wont be able to no matter what :)
> > and seeking into the past, well the player had seen this part so it has
> > complete knowledge about it, furthermore the file on the server can be
> > updated
> 
> The people running the server probably don't have a method for you to
> seek back at all, or even download the complete stream. It's much more
> likely that you will be using something like mplayer -streamdump, in
> which case you'll want the dumped file to be fully valid and seekable.

i really dont agree here, -streamdump really is not "normal" use and
if that would require remuxing of some sort thats perfectly fine for
me

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-- 
Michael