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Support MP3 audio in MPEG-4 per ISO/IEC 14496-3:2009 § 9.D.2.2

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust

Research direction

Start with pull request #227 and the test cases uploaded there, then compare mp4parse's handling of MP3 audio in MPEG-4 files with ISO/IEC 14496-3:2009 § 9.D.2.2. Done means the parser correctly handles the described MP3 carriage and the related test cases pass.

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Description

As described for pull request #227, mp4parse currently mishandles and fails to play MP3 audio carried in MPEG-4 files according to the updated specification published as ISO/IEC 14496-3:2009.

For more details please see the pull request, along with the test cases that were uploaded in connection with it.

Dominant language
Rust
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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