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AV1CodecConfigurationBox (av1C) must match the Sequence Header OBU

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start with the AVIF container parsing path and the handling of the AV1CodecConfigurationBox (av1C), then read the AVIF and AV1 Codec ISO Media File Format requirements linked in the issue. Determine whether matching against the Sequence Header OBU belongs in this library or consumer code; done requires a decided enforcement boundary and corresponding validation coverage.

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Description

avif compliance

The AV1CodecConfigurationBox av1C (defined in AV1 Codec ISO Media File Format Binding § 2.3.2) contains decoder configuration information. This information is also present in the Sequence Header OBU in the AV1 Image Item Data. Since it is advantageous to be able to access this information by parsing the AVIF container without decoding the AV1 Image Item Data, it is duplicated at the container level. Both of these values must match, or else the interpretation of the file would be ambiguous.

This requirement is based on § 2.2.1 of the AVIF Specification.

Since this library currently only handles AVIF container parsing and not AV1 Image Item Data decoding, enforcement of this requirement may occur in the consumer code (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1701430).

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