[MPlayer-dev-eng] NUT backptr proposal

[Oded Shimon]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 11:07:08AM +0200, Oded Shimon wrote:
> back_ptr can have 2 meanings.
> If it is bigger than M, then "back_ptr - M" is the real back_ptr of this 
> syncpoint.
> If it is smaller than M, it's a repeat count. all the following back_ptr's 
> of this same stream are the same as the last back_ptr. "no entry to read" 
> is set for all following back_ptr's for the following repeat count 
> syncpoints. if all streams are marked, no pts is read until one of the 
> streams is unmarked.

I forgot to mention, on a completely different level, back_ptr is relative 
to last back_ptr of the same stream and is /8 .

- ods15