Re: Several (minor) issues or underspecified areas in the MKV spec

2015-09-29 18:05 GMT+02:00 Michael Bradshaw <[email protected]>:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Dave Rice <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 28, 2015, at 9:03 PM, Michael Bradshaw <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> How can the EBMLMaxIDLength be less than 4, when the EBML and Segment IDs
>> are 4 bytes? Shouldn’t the EBML spec require the range to be > 4 and the MKV
>> speck require it be exactly 4?
>>
>> As you note the EBMLMaxIDLength can not be less than 4 because of the
>> 4-byte EBML Element ID. You’ll see the description for EBMLMaxIDLength is
>> clarified here:
>> https://github.com/Matroska-Org/ebml-specification/blob/master/specification.markdown
>> so that it doesn’t hint of less than 4 which is not possible. I think the
>> understanding is that the Matroska spec can constrain the EBMLMaxIDLength to
>> 4 (which means that 4 is the only valid EBMLMaxIDLength for the Matroska
>> docType but another doctype of EBML could use a higher value.
>
>
> The reason I ask this question is because the MKV spec says EBMLMaxIDLength
> is "4 or less in Matroska". It's that "or less" that I'm unsure of. I think
> it should probably read "4 in Matroska".

It should read "IDs in Matroska are 4 octets of less". Fixed.

> --Michael Bradshaw
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