[vlc] What are the metada that VLC player check/reads before play

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:19:55 +0530, "Ravinder"
<ravinder.bhukya at zenmediasolutions.net> wrote:
> 1.       What are the metadata that VLC player is reading and checking in
> the container?

That depends on the container.

> 2.       How VLC is deciding which container need to be used to parse?

First it tries to match the file extension. If that fails, it tries to
autodetect the file format based on magic numbers or such.

> 3.       What are the mandatory metadata that a container must be
> contained
> ( like video codec, audio codec, frame rate etc.)?

That depends on the codec.

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