[Matroska-devel] Re: CueBlockNumber

[Steve Lhomme]

Alexander Noé wrote:
> Christian HJ Wiesner wrote:
> 
>> Steve Lhomme wrote:
>>
>>> The ID is now [53][78] instead of [53][87]. The other is not part of 
>>> the specs anymore and should not be used in the future. 
>>
>>
>>
>> Sorry if i am talking rubbish, but do i understand correctly that this 
>> will make some files created with matroskamuxer spec incompliant in 
>> future ? if so, i dont like it. 
> 
> 
> Files written with Gabest's "old" muxer will contain elements that 
> readers will ignore.

Yes, simply ignored and that has never had been used for playback. Just 
written. You could write a lot of garbage in a Matroska file and it 
would still be spec compliant, the rest is ignored.