# HG changeset patch
# User michael
# Date 1174570031 0
# Node ID 21aad2a2b725b1dc52644ab907c46c5f3f757034
# Parent  2f6e03f644f776a5e770cb95c2a51b5ef223d452
clarify codec_tag

diff -r 2f6e03f644f7 -r 21aad2a2b725 avcodec.h
--- a/avcodec.h	Thu Mar 22 13:17:03 2007 +0000
+++ b/avcodec.h	Thu Mar 22 13:27:11 2007 +0000
@@ -971,6 +971,13 @@
     /**
      * fourcc (LSB first, so "ABCD" -> ('D'<<24) + ('C'<<16) + ('B'<<8) + 'A').
      * this is used to workaround some encoder bugs
+     * a demuxer should set this to what is stored in the field used to identify the codec
+     * if there are mutiple such fields in a container then the demuxer should choose the one
+     * which maximizes the information about the used codec
+     * if the codec tag field in a container is larger then 32bit then the demxuer should
+     * remap the longer id to 32bit with a table or other structure alternatively a new
+     * extra_codec_tag + size could be added but for this a clear advantage must be demonstrated
+     * first
      * - encoding: set by user, if not then the default based on codec_id will be used
      * - decoding: set by user, will be converted to upper case by lavc during init
      */