[gst-devel] thoughts on extradata

[Jan Schmidt]

<quote who="Ronald Bultje">
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Jérémy Simon wrote:
> > For example, ffmpeg people just changed the SVQ3 metadata handling :( So
> > we'll have to make some changes to qtdemux. The svq3 plugin expect the
> > qt 'stsd' atom as extradata. Putting this into a *special* buffer is
> > propably the easiest solution and we would handle codecs that need a
> > palette from the demuxer like huffyuv.
> 
> Actually, they fixed it. ;).
> 
> Anyway, let's add important atoms/data as their atom name in caps,
> so 'stsd_data' or 'esds_data' (each of type GST_TYPE_BUFFER). Anyone
> against?

How often do these need to change in a stream? Is renegotiating them going
to cause a problem if there's a queue between the demuxer and the decoder?

J.
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