On 7/29/07, Jack Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One minor point (that may already have been addressed, I've not seen > the whole discussion): note that 4CCs not only occur on the Mac but > also in various other contexts: AIFF files use 4CCs to define chunk > types, MP4 files use them for a gazillion different things (media > types, codec types, etc). Actually, codec types are generally defined > by their 4CC, and some times these even get to be used as their > mainstream name (divx and xvid). > > It may be worthwhile to add generalized support somewhere to handle > converting 4CCs from readable to binary representation. And, of > course, the world being as it is some formats (Mac OSTypes, for > example, and probably quicktime/mp4 as well, but I'm not sure) > represent 4CCs in big-endian order, others (AIFF) in little-endian.
And some support both, detecting the byte order from the 4CC. (This excludes palindromic 4CCs. :-) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
