Hi,

I've just read the IRC report of yesterday and have seen a few questions about the quicktime format, so I will try to answer:

A header in quicktime - atom <moov> - can be placed before or after "real" data - atom <mdat>. Of course if you want to stream a file, the header has to be placed at the beginning... By default, in a file created by QT4L or OpenQuicktime, the header is placed at the end. But there are functions to make a file streamable (basically, it's just translating offsets)... 
Headers in Quicktime, can also be compressed enabling the streaming to start faster .
I planned to make all this things (header position, compressed headers, ...) parameters of the Gstreamer Quicktime Muxer as it is in Quicktime Pro ;)

Btw, we also plan to transform OpenQuicktime to handle the .mp4 file format (just a few new atoms and track types ...)

Hope that helps,

Yann.


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