[NUT-devel] [nut]: r613 - docs/nutissues.txt

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 07:37:53PM +0100, Alban Bedel wrote:
> Sure, but when a "real" codec is used, it's the decoder business to tell
> the app what output format it will use. NUT can provide infos about the
> internal format used by the codec, that would help dealing with decoder
> including slow colorspace conversions. But that's definitly
> non-essential information, any player should be able to do without it.
> 
> However for RAW data the "decoder" need to know the exact format used,
> just like some other decoder need some huffman tables or whatever.
> And the logical place for such information is the extradata imho.

Agree.

Rich