[NUT-devel] Issues

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 07:23:05PM +0200, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 March 2006 18:48, Rich Felker wrote:
> 
> > > yes, though i would like to keep the option to add variable info in a later
> > > version of nut (so maybe say muxers MUST not change info but demuxers MUST
> > > accept it and use the last info packet they stumble across)
> > 
> > This is what I'm strongly against, since it requires a demuxer to read
> > unboundedly into the future in order to conform to the spec.
> 
> I think the keyword is "stumble across".
> 
> Obviously if the muxer wants the demuxer to be able to find the packet,
> it should put it at the start. It's acceptable IMO to not find it if it's in the
> middle, but if it does find a new one accidentally when playing the file
> normally, it should inform the playing application of it, and not silently
> discard it.

exactly
* demuxer NEVER searches for info, theres no need for that
* current muxers put same info after every main-stream header set
* demuxer MUST pass latest found info to user app

rich whats your oppinion about this?

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Michael