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

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:47:11PM -0400, Timothy B. Terriberry wrote:
> 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.

All the information needed to derive the lengths is there. Look at
Michael's proposal on the nut-devel list (search archives).

Rich