[Ffmpeg-devel] Decoding from blocks

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Fri Jan 12 18:36:53 CET 2007


Hi

On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 05:51:37PM +0100, Emanuele Fumagalli wrote:
> >If your p2p client prioritizes downloading of the beginning and end of
> >the file, you can usually play it the normal way as if it was
> >undamaged after the header and index have been obtained. For maximum
> >comfort, you could modify the avi demuxer so it would use the
> >information about which blocks are unavailable to avoid them when
> >demuxing and seeking.
> 
> thanks, in my case I download sequentially the block so (block1, block2...) 
> which are all buffer in memory(or saved as files on disk), what I'm trying 
> to understand is how to start the decoding since I've no full video file 
> but just blocks, do I have to use av_open_input_stream or 
> av_open_input_file?

1. implement a URLProtocol
2. register it
3. use av_open_input_file()
4. try to read the source code if you have questions
5. help improving the documentation

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