[NUT-devel] Info Packets

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 08:45:01PM +0200, Oded Shimon wrote:
> > Anyway, I have no particular position for or against Michael's
> > particular implementation ideas on info. However, here are a few
> > things I would prefer...
> > 
> > - Let's not use the same key more than once with different values in
> >   the same context (same stream/chapter/timeinterval). I fear this
> >   will be confusing to players.
> 
> You mean, if I have 'director' set to the entire file, i can't use 
> 'director' again as a subinfo for some stream?.. sounds ok with me...

No, i mean you can't put both Stream=1 and Stream=2 in the same
packet.

> > - If possible, I'd prefer that the demuxer not need to handle any of
> >   the semantics of info tags. But maybe this is a stupid requirement
> >   on my part.
> > 
> > Maybe I'll try throwing some ideas out later for discussion. In the
> > mean time, no worries, it's not my intent to flame or shoot down
> > anyone's approach to info.
> 
> BTW, I'm considering keeping compatiblity with mkv tags, so transcoding is 
> easy... Just the names of the fields, they use all caps and underscores 
> (TITLE, CHAPTER_ID, whatever)

I doubt anyone will remux between nut and mkv.. and all other formats
require different names anyway (or don't use names at all). IMO the
all-caps is yet another ugly WINDOWS-ism of mkv...

Rich