G'day all. On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 09:26:30PM -0400, Matthew Donadio wrote:
AVI and QuickTime formats also a have a similar issue, where they really specify a file format, and you can use a variety of codecs in them.
In these cases, each codec will have its own interface to plug into QuickTime. It's the same with a file format (e.g. OpenPGP) into which you can "plug in" ciphers, hashes, string-to-key algorithms etc. One issue with Deflate and Jpeg is that the "codecs" can be used in different formats in different ways (e.g. Jpeg is used in JFIF, PDF and TIFF). This is one reason why I think that generic versions of "codecs" are probably a bad idea. Far better to group by the general area which they serve (e.g. Crypto, Image, Text etc). Cheers, Andrew Bromage