On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 02:17:22PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
Hi
How are attachments (cd cover image, fonts for subtitles, ...) supposed to be stored in nut? As i originally designed things, info packets should have been used. But after changes upon which some fanatically insisted info packets no longer are flexible enough. They are required to be repeated after every header and they can only apply to a single stream. Neither of these limitations was in the original design.
So for 10 subtitle streams, we would need a minimum of 30 copies of all fonts.
My original design could have stored a version of the font and still kept proper references so that it was known to the demuxer which streams the attachment applied to.
</rant> i see many possible solutions. 1 just insist on seperate files 2 add n special info packets before the actual one containing the font each pointing to another subtitle stream and a "ContentInNextPacket" entry 3 like above but put these packets after the one with the content 1 is inconvenient for some types of attachments (like cd covers ...) also it doesnt solve the O(n*m) issue. Of cours solving the O(n) issue does mean less redundancy, but then loosing the cd cover or even the fonts is better than loosing the main headers ... [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. -- Voltaire