23 Nov
2006
23 Nov
'06
2:10 a.m.
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
i propose to add the following somewhere in the spec
codec_specific_data SHOULD contain exactly the essential global packets needed to decode a stream, more specifically it SHOULD NOT contain packets which contain only non essential metadata like author, title, ... it also MUST NOT contain normal packets which cause the reference decoder to generate any specific decoded samples
How does this apply to encoder version info packets, as used by x264, xvid, and divx? They're non-essential metadata in that the reference decoder ignores them, but libavcodec uses them for bug workarounds. --Loren Merritt