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Lossy Audio Compression => AAC => AAC - Tech => Topic started by: paultaylor on 2011-09-22 11:05:23

Title: What is hnti atom inside mp4
Post by: paultaylor on 2011-09-22 11:05:23
I have an mp4 with just a hnti and within that a rtp atom inside the udta atom, anybody know what these atoms are for ?
Title: What is hnti atom inside mp4
Post by: benski on 2011-09-22 16:37:14
I have an mp4 with just a hnti and within that a rtp atom inside the udta atom, anybody know what these atoms are for ?


Hint tracks to aid a streaming server in remuxing the M4A file to an RTP stream. 

Here's an article from Bill May (libmp4v2 author) describing them in a little more detail.  It's a bit libmp4v2 specific but it should give you a general idea.
http://svn.gnumonks.org/trunk/21c3-video/c...hint_tracks.txt (http://svn.gnumonks.org/trunk/21c3-video/cutting_tagging/tools/mpeg4ip-1.2/doc/about_hint_tracks.txt)