Playing WebM files with an invalid stream

[Chris Pearce]

What should he behaviour be in a WebM player when it encounters a
media with one of its streams invalid? For example if the Vorbis stream
is invalid, should the player just play the VP8 stream? Or should it
refuse to play the file completely?

I note that Chrome and Opera reject the file completely, I'm considering
how to handle this case in Firefox4...

Maybe http://www.webmproject.org/code/specs/container/ should include a
note to say how to handle this case?

Thanks,
Chris Pearce.

[Steve Lhomme]

What do you call invalid ? A mismatching codec or the stream has errors inside ?

Steve

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[Chris Pearce]

15/10/2010 7:22 a.m., Steve Lhomme wrote:
> What do you call invalid ? A mismatching codec or the stream has errors inside ?
>

The stream has errors inside. For example, a WebM file with the Vorbis
codebooks invalid, but the VP8 stream has no errors.

Chris P.