changeset 22199:cc89992b27a3

demuxers must ignore unknown lang/country codes, it seems we all agree that this should be stated clearly it follows from the fact that new language and country codes are added to the ISO standards from time to time and that a compliant demuxer must not reject a valid file which uses such a new code which was not know when the demuxer was written
author michael
date Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:29:09 +0000
parents 0d59af1f4156
children bd6dd2e78c1b
files DOCS/tech/nut.txt
diffstat 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/DOCS/tech/nut.txt	Wed Feb 14 11:06:59 2007 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/tech/nut.txt	Wed Feb 14 12:29:09 2007 +0000
@@ -850,6 +850,8 @@
         see http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/englangn.html
         and http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/codlstp1/en_listp1.html
         the language code
+        a demuxer MUST ignore unknown language and country codes instead of
+        treating them as an error
     "Disposition"
         "original", "dub" (translated), "comment", "lyrics", "karaoke"
         Note: if someone needs some others, please tell us about them, so we