[NUT-devel] Codec id - random notes

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 01:34:41AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
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> a- what about workarounds you need to apply for certain encoders?
> - usually such hints could be guessed from the stream itself.

there are some rare case where this is not true and the fourcc is needed
for playback (XVIX (xvid + some interacing bug) for example)


> - a proper decoder should conform to the standard completely and not
> need hints

irrelevant, this just doesnt work in reality, you need to play streams
droping support for a few rare fourcc dependant workarounds is one thing
dropping support for all not standard compliant streams is just not
feasable


> - they could be replicated in the info packet w/out many issues.

you mean fourcc in the info packet? (somehow this is just shifting
things around not really changing anything) also info packets are
supposed to be optional but here the fourcc field might be needed
for the codec workarounds...

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