[Ffmpeg-devel] global headers

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Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:

> Hi
>
> what about letting encoders always generate global headers / set extradata?
> currently it needs CODEC_FLAG_GLOBAL_HEADER to be set, which well, is
> annoying from a encoder - muxer seperation POV
>
> objections, comments?

That's fine for codecs where using global headers doesn't alter the
format of the stream.  Requiring all muxers needing inline headers to
reassemble the stream seems unreasonable.

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