[NUT-devel] [nut]: r609 - docs/nutissues.txt

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 07:55:49PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Iam listing all issues which have not been solved and all possble solutions.
> You just asked today or yesterday if mpeg had some document about the
> reasoning behind some of their decissions.
> 
> It would be unprofessional if id simply not list a possible solution because
> we maybe decided 2-4 years ago that its not a good choice.

OK.

> And yes i agree that things just needed for raw dont belong in the stream
> header. And IIRC the consensus 2-4 years ago was to use the fourcc though
> i dont remember all the reasoning anymore but we had a pretty good
> argument, i just dont remember it :)

OK.

> Now you seem you prefer extradata, after alban suggested it, this is as
> close to the consensus 3 years ago as using the stream header.
> Besides its one of thee things which would be a nightmare to implement in
> practice and would need tons of special case.

I agree it has some major practical issues, such as the fact that no
existing PCM "decoder" is prepared to handle extradata. I'm totally
happy with the fourcc approach too; I don't have much preference one
way or the other here.

> If(raw){
>     extract all the data out of extradata
>     make extradata disapear somehow as its nut specific and not the codec
>     private area
> }else{
> }

Yes....

Rich