[FFmpeg-devel] MOV Muxer fix to respect the standard

[Måns Rullgård]

"Fran?ois Revol" <revol at free.fr> writes:

>> Hi guys,
>> 
>>     I recently found when I generated a mp4 file that this file 
>> doesn't 
>> totally respect the standard(ISO media file format 14496-12) in 
>> particulary for the box 'hdlr'. The handler description(named in the 
>> standard as 'name') must be a NULL-terminated string in UTF8 while in 
>> the generated file I saw that the string is not NULL-terminated and 
>> it 
>> is preceded by its size while it is not specifies by the standard.
>>     If you confirm that, I have joined within this mail a patch that 
>> you 
>> can apply.
>
> From what I recall, in many places MOV does use PASCAL strings (length 
> + non \0), while MP4 changed this to be C strings (\0 terminated), 
> which is about the only significant difference (sometimes I wondered if 
> it's not just to crash MOV parsers).
>
> I don't have time, but you'll definitely want to check both QT and MP4 
> specs for this.

ISO 14496-12 says null-terminated string, and QT says "counted
string", so they are incompatible.  Of course, any size/termination is
unnecessary since the string is the last element of the box and the
box size is known.  Fools writing specs again...

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