[NUT-devel] Info Packets

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 10:04:21PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > > 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?
> 
> negative chapter ids are an ugly hack
> 
> and from where do we know the start/stop times of the chapters, iam
> strongly against putting all chapter start/stop times in a single packet

It would be nice if we could design this in such a way that the same
in-band info stream frames for streaming content could be directly
remuxed to info packets for easy chapter access in on-disk files (and
vice versa).

Rich