Re: Track fragments

On Feb 17, 2010, at 5:00 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:

>>> 
>>> Dave only talks about the time dimension there, too. I am not sure MP4
>>> could more easily deal with tracks retrieved through byte range
>>> requests than Ogg does. But I don't know enough about the moov
>>> containers.
>> 
>> Once you get the full header of an MP4 file, obtaining the byte ranges
>> corresponding to particular tracks should not be problem and is comparable
>> to way it is done in the time dimension.
> 
> That's interesting and good to know. Curious to see that working.
> 
  You see this working today whenever you open a movie with disabled tracks in any client that uses QuickTime on OSX 10.6. QuickTime only reads data when it needs to be scheduled for display, so disabled tracks are never retrieved.

eric

Received on Wednesday, 17 February 2010 15:49:44 UTC