= Media Architecture notes =

At some point down the road Moonlight|3D will have to be able to read and write audio and video files as part of its processing. Therefore, a basic media architecture needs to be established.

== Design Notes ==

 * Need Demultiplexer and Decoder classes, the latter being capable of being fed arbitrarily sized chunks of data
 * Need Encoders and Multiplexers, the latter getting fed arbitrarily sized chunks of data from the former
 * Require support for seeking in streams for which decoding is set up
 * If possible, make no assumptions on how much data a decoder or encoder needs to produce the next bit of output (avoid one frame in, one frame out and other design errors)

== Existing Resources ==

(extend this list whenever something new is discovered)

 * Open Source decoders from fluendo
 * partial Java-implementation for Matroska based formats: http://svn.matroska.org/svn/matroska/trunk/JEBML/
 * ffmpeg: C sourcecode for many container formats and codecs, would need porting