[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Theora in Matroska

[Timothy B. Terriberry]

Rich Felker wrote:
> The idea is that the decoder should just look for the startcodes of
> the 3 packets and use their internal size information rather than
> relying on the wrapping. This is 100% robust (can't give false
> matches) on all the existing packings for vorbis. Dunno if the
> situation for theora is as good or not.

libtheora, like libvorbis, will correctly ignore any extra data appended 
to the end of a header packet, however (also like Vorbis), there is no 
explicit internal size information.