On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 10:40 -0700, John Stebbins wrote: > In the bdtools tarball, you'll find some notes I took while reverse > engineering the format. There's a little more involved than simply > splicing together files. The beginning and end of a clip doesn't have to > coincide with the beginning and end of the file. There are start and > end points defined in the playlist. The code I wrote for Matroska ordered chapters already handles that; you can have an overall playback timeline pieced together from segments with arbitrary start and end points, possibly coming from multiple separate files. > The libbluray project has a bd_read > function that does all the proper splicing. If the general timeline functionality can be used then such format-specific handling shouldn't be needed.
