[Theora-dev] Directshow filters 0.64.7923

[illiminable]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Timothy B. Terriberry" <tterribe at vt.edu>
To: "illiminable" <ogg at illiminable.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 3:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Theora-dev] Directshow filters 0.64.7923


>> I think i previously tried just putting it at the top or the bottom and 
>> it didn't work, that's why i centred it. Maybe it's just a product of the 
>> files i tested on... perhaps a flag that indicates what the offset 
>> represents might be an idea ? Though i guess once things are finalised, 
>> it doesn't matter... though there's still the problem of the videos that 
>> are already floating around.
>
> No, it is already finalized. We froze the bitstream some time ago. The 
> offset _in the bitstream_ indicates the offset from the bottom. The API is 
> of course free to compute the offset from the top and return that to the 
> user, just like it flips the video upside down. This can still be changed, 
> but it does not affect anything that was already encoded.
>

OK... just curious why files that were apparently created with the latest 
release, seem to work with centred offsets but not with offsets at the top 
or bottom ?

Zen.