[NUT-devel] r19110 - trunk/DOCS/tech/nut.txt

[Måns Rullgård]

Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:

> Hi
>
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 03:15:50PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
>> 
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 02:04:48PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> >> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
>> >> 
>> >> > and there are many codecs which have several chunks
>> >> > all the mpeg variants do, but they have startcodes so its a non issue
>> >> 
>> >> Hmm... I've never heard of MPEG1/2 stored with OOB data.  Have I been
>> >> looking in the wrong places?
>> >
>> > no, ive never heard of it either ...
>> 
>> So I should just ignore what you said?
>
> if you like ...
>
> mpeg1/2 do have several chunks which could be considered to be global
> headers but noone stores them out of band / in a global header furthermore
> they could be trivially stored as they are in a global header due to their
> startcodes delimiting the individual chunks

I guess you're referring to the sequence header and related extension
headers here.  Yes, those could be stored OOB, but the standard
doesn't make any such provisions.

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Måns Rullgård
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