[Matroska-devel] Re: Re: EBML

[Paul Bryson]

"Paul Bryson" wrote...
> "Martin Nilsson" wrote...
> > Also note that the Matroska DTD says that the elements are ordered. I
> > assume that's not the case in reality, right? (Though it would be a very
> > good property IMHO)
>
> There was some debate about this recently, and I can't recall the outcome.  In
> many cases the ordering of the elements does not matter, however the way that
> the Blocks for different tracks is interleaved in Clusters, and the order that
> those Clusters are stored in will matter for smooth playback.  If I have time,
I
> will search for that posting.  I know it is in the mailing list somewhere.

Found it.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.matroska.devel/1132


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