On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 02:38:18AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
Hi
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 04:30:02PM -0800, Ralph Giles wrote:
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 01:17:18AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
no, there where some disscussions about compressing them by using a table of "common" types/values in a header and then using just numbers instead of strings but we didnt find a solution which everyone agreed to
What about running all the fields together and compressing the blob with deflate, like the PNG zTXT chunk?
dependancy on zlib, and zlib is likely bigger then the demuxer furthermore if we compress each info packet seperately then deflate will likely not be very efficient, if we compress all info packets together then one damaged info packet would cause all info packets afterwards to be lost, and this also wont work with "midstream" info packets
exactly. mandating zlib support is absolutely out of the question. the gain in size is _tiny_ and the penalty in implementation complexity is huge. rich