[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] MTH demuxer (Gamecube format)

[Mike Melanson]

Michael Montanye wrote:
> Mike Melanson wrote:
>> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>  
>>> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:12:52AM +0100, Marc Mason wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      
>>>>> Mike Melanson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>        
>>>>>> I decided to go with the file signature instead.
>>>>>>           
>>>>> What do you mean by signature?
>>>>>         
>>>> Perhaps he meant
>>>>
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_format#Magic_number
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)#Magic_numbers_in_files 
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> I was basically wondering why it is called MTH in one place and MTHP in
>>> another.  IMO we should use only one description, otherwise we will only
>>> generate confusion.  DV is not the same as DVD or DVB.
>>>     
>>
>> I vote for MTHP as the consistent term. As mentioned, it's the file's 
>> signature and thus the most consistent identifier. MTH is just to 
>> accomodate the common convention of the 3-letter file extensions. This 
>> is consistent with our reasoning for referring to MPEG rather than MPG.
>>
>>   
> That makes sense, especially since I just found a GC game that uses no 
> file extensions at all, and the only way to find the FMVs was to look at 
> the signature.  And it's trivial to change.  Changed, new patch attached.

BTW, do you know of any (quasi-)formal documentation for this format, or 
did you sort it out from hex dumps?

-- 
     -Mike Melanson