On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 11:29:01PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
Hi
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 09:50:50PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
michael wrote:
file_id_string "nut/multimedia container\0" + the very first thing in every nut file, usefull for identifying nut + files
I guess that it could be pointed as the magic string for file (btw I could add a IANA formal request if you thing it's time)
please elaborate you mean some sort of official "files starting with "nut/multimedia container\0" are nut files as defined by nut.txt from IANA?
if so iam in favor of that unless rich or oded or anyone else has any objections or suggestions to change the string?
the only suggestion i would make is to mandate that the main header startcode come immediately following the null byte. this is required anyway for a valid nut file so anything doing filetype detection via magic numbers should require it as well.. and it might prevent false positives in some weird borderline cases (e.g. a text file beginning with "nut/multimedia container" where subsequent data is missing and replaced by null bytes). rich