From: Linus Nielsen Feltzing <linus_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 03:46:37 +0200

Andreas Stemmer wrote:
> TP Diffenbach wrote:
>
>> I'd like to be able to add optional startAt, endAt information to
>> playlists, and was figuring that it's most user friendly to allow
>> this information to be input as time, but neccessary to either have
>> a frame offset or iterate through all prior frames for VBR.
>
>
> Good idea! As far as I know this exactly what the vbr header does:
> translate the time position to a frame offset. But I think Linus is
> the man to ask about vbr headers...

My first reaction to this is: "Cut the files". My second reaction is:
"Send a patch and we'll consider it".

Regarding the VBR headers, the Xing header format can't seek frame
accurately within a file, but it surely give a hint (in 1% steps) where
to start searching. The VBRI format supports a higher resolution, but
still isn't accurate.

Linus
Received on 2003-07-19