On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 09:05:31AM -0800, Ralph Giles wrote:
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 01:51:34PM +0100, michael wrote:
if anyone disagrees or has suggestions to improve it then shout
+ 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, ...
For codecs with required stream-embedded metadata like ours, I think this is just making work for the muxer. I'd allow such packets, and instead say that implementations SHOULD maintain and prefer container-level metadata with NUT. The packet should be there, even if it's minimal.
The packet can be there if it's required by the spec, but the metadata fields should all be blank, and should be completely ignored by any player. I would be in favor of a requirement that a compliant player MUST NOT present user-oriented metadata from codec bitstream (just like how using timestamps from the codec bitstream is already forbidden). Rich