[MPlayer-dev-eng] Embed Data in Video Stream

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:01:19PM +0200, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
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> The format MKV is based on binary XML, so you can theoretically extend
> it to support whatever you need, however you still may need to code
> muxer-demuxer changes.

many formats allow you to add random chunks, mov and avi do as well


> 
> The bad news is that mencoder primary output container is avi, that is
> quite limited as standard, but the good news is that mencoder support
> all libavformat (de)muxers, so you'd have to go to ffmpeg coding.

i think the most sane way to store GPS info is in a seperate stream
(its also not related to video, even a audio only file can have GPS
coordinates of the recording)
now practically every format supports more than 2 streams, even AVI

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