It's the other way around - the codec informs the
renderer when the size changes. The renderer usually
knows what the size initially is, so the codec only
has to inform it when it changes.

Eric

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Eric Hyche (ehyche at real.com)
Technical Lead
RealNetworks, Inc.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: datatype-dev-bounces at helixcommunity.org 
> [mailto:datatype-dev-bounces at helixcommunity.org] On Behalf Of 
> Sachin Kundu
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 2:29 AM
> To: datatype-dev at helixcommunity.org
> Subject: Re: [datatype-dev] helix-producer-dev at helixcommunity.org
> 
> 
> > 
> > If the decoder is decoding a video bitstream that
> > produces different output sizes and the renderer
> > says it can handle them, then the decoder is free
> > to return frames of different sizes, as long as 
> > it informs the decoder of the new sizes. 
> 
> How does the renderer inform the decoder of the new sizes? 
> 
> Sachin Kundu
> 
>