[NUT-devel] Info Packets

[Oded Shimon]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 07:15:17PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 07:04:02PM +0200, Oded Shimon wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 06:47:13PM +0200, Oded Shimon wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 03:42:11PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > > maybe a system we both would like is to add a list of streams and start/stop
> > > > times at the top of every info packet, so that the packet applies to
> > > > (streamX + StreamY + ... + StreamZ) at the time intervals 
> > > > (startX..endX + startY..EndY + ... + startZ..EndZ)
> > > > 
> > > > and require that every 2 info packes with the same streams and intervalls be
> > > > identical
> > > > 
> > > > that would avoid the chapter limitation your system introduces and it doesnt
> > > > make info packets depend on each other which means simpler parsing and
> > > > more error robustness
> > > 
> > > Do we really need the ability to specify regions smaller/seperate from
> > > chapters? I fail to see the usefulness of this... Even mkv doesn't have 
> > > such an ability, and they are the bloated tag-info experts...
> > > Maybe we can make a 'chapterid=-1' or whatever that means it's not any 
> > > chapter, it's some subregion. it has the disadvantage of having to allow 
> > > several packets with the same "chapterid"..
> > 
> > Alternative, chapterid=-1,-2,... each subregion has a new id. (the only 
> > reason negative values are special, they can overlap real chapters with 
> > positive id's..)
> > 
> > This only works if we agree to dump the bitmask...
> > 
> > I preffer simplicity over compactness for the info packets...
> 
> i wont object against a single stream id and single start/stop time per info
> packet as long as the overhead is not unreasonable
> 
> i am against your overlapping restrictions and negative chapter ids
> 
> 
> packet: streamid=-1(all), startTime=0, len=sth_big, Title=foobar
> packet: streamid=-1(all), startTime=0, len=123, Type="chapter", Title="Introduction"
> packet: streamid=1, startTime=0, len=sth_big, Lang=mixed, PrimaryLang=eng
> packet: streamid=1, startTime=100, len=50, Lang=ger

Hmm, you can do all this with the negative chapter ids, so what's the 
problem?

The negative chapter id's have absoloutely no overlapping rules, they can 
overlap the positive chapters and each other..

- ods15