[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/tech mpcf.txt,1.39,1.40

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wednesday 07 April 2004 05:53, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 12:40:50AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer CVS wrote:
> > CVS change done by Michael Niedermayer CVS
> >
> > Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/tech
> > In directory mail:/var2/tmp/cvs-serv7527
> >
> > Modified Files:
> > 	mpcf.txt
> > Log Message:
> > minor changes
> >  rename b -> vb, so 'v' is the vlc, 'b' is simply a series of bytes and
> > 'vb' is the length as vlc + the bytes encode the fourcc & language code
> > as v instead of vb, this is much simpler in practice, at least in lavf as
> > the fourcc is an int there
>
> Grr... vb was chosen specifically so they would be human-readable in a
> hex editor! Please revert this.
ok done, btw the reason for vb->v was that the vb code was broken on bigendian 
IIRC

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Michael
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