[MPlayer-dev-eng] Lots of stuff for NUT

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Mon Jan 2 03:46:34 CET 2006


Hi

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 12:13:57AM +0200, Oded Shimon wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 05:14:07PM +0200, Oded Shimon wrote:
> > 1. The solution above, and simple give up giving the CLOSEST keyframe to a 
> >    specific position, but still enough info to decode requested position.
> > 2. The solution of chaanging back_ptr's, which is rather complicated, DOES 
> >    indeed solve EVERYTHING, but raises complexity of muxer greately, and 
> >    for reasons I'll not detail here, makes it possible to have 2 subsequent 
> >    syncpoints with no frame between them.
> > 3. Give up fullfilling the promise of "have an index, then no more than a 
> >    single file seek to seek to position". I highly dislike this solution.
> > 4. Something else out of the box. Maybe go back to old solutions - keyframe 
> >    index. (If nobody remembers, the probably with keyframe index is that 
> >    you simply cannot seek to arbitrary position in file, only to 
> >    syncpoints, because you need "last_pts" state information)
> > 
> > I vote for 2. It's the "ideal" solution as it always does the right thing.
> 
> Sigh, wrong again, I found a situation it breaks.

elaborate please ...

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Michael




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