[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] AAC fatetests

[Måns Rullgård]

Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:

> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 09:39:29PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
>> 
>> > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:49:41AM +0200, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
>> >> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:24:26AM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> [...]
>> >> This would also allow testing of non-seekable input without needing
>> >> http or piping from stdin...
>> >
>> > one cant seek in bz2 ?
>> > did gnu butcher the _block_ based bw transform that much?
>> 
>> There is likely no way to find the block boundaries other than by
>> decoding the entire thing.
>
> if so that would be a very lame design, because the basic algorithm doesnt
> use the previous blocks being able to recover in case of damage would
> have been a nice feature

I'm only speculating there.  Missing block markers are all too common,
c.f. FLAC.

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