Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> writes:
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 11:42:55AM +0300, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
I though we are going to ommit FourCC definition on purpose. We are either going to follow avi/MS fourcc, or follow the path of matroska - defining our own completely ridiculous reinventions.
No, these are not the only two choices.
How about defining an syntax or allowing inclusion of as many aliases as possible? e.g.
"ISO14496-2;MPEG-4;XviD;XVID;xvid;DX50;DIVX;FM40"
This for sure will guarantee that any player could recognize the format :)
we could add and more additional info in brakets. E.g. {XviD,XVID,xvid}(bs=130,ver=1.1.0).
This looks like the ridiculous Matroska path to me.. :)
IMO the proposal should be to sanitize the fourcc madness without doing anything ridiculous...
I kind of like the idea of using the name of the standard where applicable. Using the name (or some derivation) of a particular implementation is about as evil as it gets, IMHO. -- Måns Rullgård mru@inprovide.com