On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:54:16AM +0300, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
I generally dislike anything involving nut-id. It's just like matroska, useless bloat.
well, as we still dont have volunteer for maintaining nut-id and no initial nut-id table either, I/IAA options are pretty dead anyway ivan do you volunteer to do the work? and can you make a table containing all 4cc of avi & mov with nice format & implementation names?
No problem. That's easy.
It is not easy and you'll have an even harder time getting anyone to adopt it.
I hope you don't want it with past date. It needs few hours work. Of course I'll do it only if the format_id is really going to be used.
Unlikely.
I'd like discusion to be based on arguments and reasoning, not what Dick likes and what not.
Apparently you missed the argument. To quote: "It's just like matroska, useless bloat" I didn't go into any more detail because I already explained what I mean by this many times. Bloat means cost (in size, performance, or complexity -- in this case mainly complexity) is disproportionately large compared to practical benefit (which is zero here, so the bloat ratio is infinite). Making up our own id system would be a classic case of NIH syndrome. Rich