From 46ddcfbe19799a59560b0607e9f4efab70576dee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: michael Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:51:33 +0000 Subject: codec_specific_data clarification if anyone disagrees or has suggestions to improve it then shout git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@21189 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2 --- DOCS/tech/nut.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'DOCS') diff --git a/DOCS/tech/nut.txt b/DOCS/tech/nut.txt index 0843ab5b79..4d34301144 100644 --- a/DOCS/tech/nut.txt +++ b/DOCS/tech/nut.txt @@ -568,6 +568,13 @@ codec_specific_data the exact format is specified in the codec spec for H.264 the NAL units MUST be formatted as in a bytestream (with 00 00 01 prefixes) + codec_specific_data SHOULD contain exactly the essential global packets + needed to decode a stream, more specifically it SHOULD NOT contain packets + which contain only non essential metadata like author, title, ... + it also MUST NOT contain normal packets which cause the reference decoder + to generate any specific decoded samples + the encoder name and version, shall be considered essential as it is very + usefull to workaround possible encoder bugs frame_code frame_code is an 8-bit field which exists before every frame, it can -- cgit v1.2.3