[Matroska-devel] New SimpleBlock

[Steve Lhomme]

Hi,

We are in the process of adding a new Block element to the specs. The 
idea is to make it as simple as possible to write and to read. That is 
no complex referencing system and such. So the new SimpleBlock is now at 
the same level as BlockGroup (which then lose his mandatory feature in 
the block). It has the same format as our good old Block, with the 
addition of 2 flags :
- keyframe (set when the frames of the Block are stand alone)
- discardable (set when the frame can be safely discarded on playback)

This change was motivated by Haali and Mosu to avoid parsing the codec 
to find references and the required timecode. There should be no problem 
on playback as it's the way AVI and MP4 work.

Files with that new block should be available soon from mkvmerge and 
Haali's muxer (and hopefully AVI-Mux GUI), so you'll have to update your 
player for such files. Haali already supports it in his experimental 
build and I'll it to VLC this week-end when mkvmerge can create such files.

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