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interdrift on Oct 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Joker – Torrents to streamable video

What if the data isn't a video.Does every format have a header which provides that it's actually a video?I assume it works through a stream feeding it with data at a time and then decoding it?

icebraining on Oct 28, 2014 [–]

Does every format have a header which provides that it's actually a video?

I've never seen one that didn't. Certainly the most common containers do.

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