[gst-devel] addition of a buffer flag

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

Hi Ronald,


My original statement was:
> Hi,
> 
> can't the mux rsimply extract this data from the packets directly?

Not if the muxer is supposed to be codec-agnostic.

And you replied:


> On Wed, 12 May 2004, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> > > That is an ideal situation that doesn't work for any of the modern
> > > formats (unfortunately). Matroska fails horribly here, as does Ogg. Nut,
> > > interestingly, is fairly codec agnostic, as are AVI and MPEG.
> > Ogg doesn't fail here at all.  Where does it fail ? Our implementation
> > of it fails.
> 
> Separating actual data and headers.

So basically I said "ogg muxing doesn't need to know about the codecs";
You said "ogg fails horribly here", and you explained that as "separating actual
data and headers".  Read the thread again - what you think is a failure has
nothing to do with whether or not the muxer is codec-agnostic.

So, unless you can show me exactly where ogg isn't codec-agnostic (ie; it's the
*codec* that uses the container - ogg - and gives info to the container, and not
the other way around), I'll go on believing the xiph guys that wrote the container.

> Now that we're at it, note that you seem to take Ogg as a starting point,
> whereas I take AVI as a starting point. In AVI, there is *no way* that
> headers will end up in the stream, because it screws up seeking. In Ogg,
> it's all fine because of the finer model.

AVI is not streaming.  I don't see why AVI is important in a discussion
about *streaming*.


> Both are a way to solve the problem. None is invalid w.r.t the other.
> It's about preference. So let's continue with that as a starting point.
> 
> Ogg fails to nicely prepare data for AVI. AVI fails to nicely prepare data
> for Ogg.

Not sure I follow.  Why would you want AVI to prepare data for Ogg ?

Anyway, I'll take up the exact problem up from the top in my next mail,
since on IRC you seemed to indicate that you at first didn't understand
my specific problem.

Thomas


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