Re: Re: Storing header backups, and other important stuff

Steve Lhomme <[email protected]> Tue, 02 Jul 2002 15:02:20 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.mcf.mplayer
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> There's a drawback to this, because this info won't be available to the 
> player, if it plays the file as a stream (e.g. inet-streaming), where seeking 
> in the file is not possible.
> 
> So maybe there should be two different variations, one with stats at the 
> beginning, if writing like that is possible and one with file stats at the 
> end, if data is multiplexed to an unseekable stream.

This is what is currently done. But we'd like to merge them into one...