Re: ANother thing..

En réponse à [email protected]:

> Recall the reason we have DLL's in windows was and assumption 
> about people not ever needing or having a use for more than 1 meg of 
> ram in MSDOS.. DLL's must be under the limit of a meg because 
> that's the virtual machine footprint in the Intel processor.. 
> Data formats can influence constraints on design.. 
> 
> This XCF has a 2 meg limitation? Hey I'm working on a 36,000 
> frame animation (36 gigs), that's 20 minutes (which will take 
> about , at a resolution 1024x1024) which I can render out in about a 
> day at 2 seconds per frame on my 2.4 Ghz machine in a day in 
> blender.. Gives you an idea of how much the industry has changed and 
> how inadequate a file format is.. Especially one with a static size 
> limit.. 

The 2MB limit of a Cluster in MCF is just a guideline. There is actually no such
limitation in the actual format. The 2MB is based on what can be checked with
usual CRCs. And yes it is mainly targeted at compressed movies with a usual
bitrate (1 movie in 1 or 2 CDs). That's where the guideline applies. It's also
the size you're supposed to handle in memory, ie cache a whole Cluster and then
read inside. Otherwise you're free to use smaller or bigger Clusters.

BTW, did you check matroska ? It's a bit more object-oriented like the thing you
proposed.


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