Re: Theora packets with granulepos of -1

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Timothy B. Terriberry
<[email protected]> wrote:
> salsaman wrote:
>> Yes, it is specified, but I discovered there was a bug in some earlier
>> versions of the encoder which resulted in the wrong value being used.
>> If you try to decode one of these files, it will not work without the
>> above check.
>
> The subminor version field is used to indicate whether the stream starts
> from 0 or 1. Are you saying there's a version of the encoder which
> outputs a subminor version of 1 but starts the stream from granpos 0, or
> vice versa?
>
> Also, keep in mind that files captured from the middle of a live stream
> will often start from a granpos other than 0 or 1, in which case your
> manual check of the first page will fail to reveal which is actually
> being used.

I check the first positive granulepos, not the first page. So it will
always come out with the correct value.


Gabriel.