[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Playlist API

Geza Kovacs gkovacs
Thu Aug 6 21:35:35 CEST 2009


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On 08/03/2009 03:12 AM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> playlists pretend to be demuxers and seeking for demuxers really is supposed
> to work over the whole media represented by that demuxer. Thats also what
> you get when it is transcoded to a new file.
> 
> also
> ffmpeg -i A B
> seeking in A and B should behave the same as far as the containers support
> it. Now if A is a playlist that isnt what would happen ...
> 
> What that really means is that either
> a. seeking should work over the whole media represented by a demuxer
>    this might be hard in some cases (where duration of the individual
>    elements is not known)
> 
> b. the seeking API for demuxers would need to be changed so that ANY
>    demuxer could present its timeline in a funny, broken not fully seekable
>    way. This of course would need to be discussed with all its justifications
>    advantages and disadvanatges and it would need to be approved.
>    Theres also alot of considerations about the symmetry between demuxers and
>    muxers and such that need to be considered
> 
> c. playlist would need to be implemented differently, not pretending to be
>    demuxers

This updated patch implements seeking over the entire playlist. As I
stated in my previous message, the API is able to handle playlist items
with differing numbers of streams.
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