[FFmpeg-devel] h264_annexbtomp4 filter ideas, was: Collection of patches

[Baptiste Coudurier]

Thorsten Jordan wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer schrieb:
>> wOn Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:10:50AM +0200, Thorsten Jordan wrote:
>>> Thorsten Jordan schrieb:
>>>> Michael Niedermayer schrieb:
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 09:15:40AM +0200, Thorsten Jordan wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>> Which brings up the question if there should be never SEI units in
>>>> global headers. I found nothing near the SPS/PPS description that
>>>> mentions SEI, so they are not used as header extension?
>>> If one would solve this by writing a h264_annexbtomp4 bitstream filter,
>>> there are some issues:
>> The problem is the parser_split() API not h264_annexbtomp4. The world
>> is not just .mp4 and .h264, there are other containers needing the headers
>> seperated but in annex B format. 
>> Besides this the decoder needs the headers as well, they can occur later
>> then the first IDR frame the common code will read ahead until the split
>> function has filled them in. Your suggested hack of doing this in 
>> h264_annexbtomp4 will break decoding of such streams.
> ok, if I understood you correctly, you want no annexbtomp4 filter, but a

I do want an annexbtomp4 which will be used instead of doing it in mp4
muxer though :>

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