[M4IF Technotes] Short Header

[Klaus Diepold]

Friends and Comrades,
after having recently spent some time discussing about the relation between
H.263 and MPEG-4 Visual I am all confused myself by now. There is the "short
header" feature in MPEG-4 visual that appears in several profiles. I can
remember that this was based on some late attempts lead by Gary to achieve
some level of interoperability between MPEG-4 and H.263. Does this mean that
an H.263 decoder can decode MPEG-4 "short header" streams or is it the other
way around or no way around after all ? Can anybody shed a little more light
on the rationale behind the "short header" ?
Best Regards,
Klaus
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