[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Playlist API

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Fri Aug 7 13:31:12 CEST 2009


m   On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 06:43:25PM -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Geza Kovacs<gkovacs at mit.edu> wrote:
> > streams[0] is primary video stream
> > streams[1] is primary audio stream
> > streams[2] is primary subtitle stream
> > streams[3] is alternative video stream
> > streams[4] is alternative audio stream
> > streams[5] is alternative subtitle stream
> 
> Well, that makes no sense. It's too limiting in all aspects.
> 
> Your problems comes very close to that of titles in a DVD/Bluray:
> trailers often have one video, but then the main movie might have
> mutli-angle ideo, multi-language subtitles/audiostreams, etc. The
> codecs can be different between titles (LPCM for the main concert, but
> simple ac3 for the trailers, or whatever; for BR, the video codec
> might change also).
> 
> The solution to the.problem of "how do I support multiple streams in a
> playlist" and "how do I support multiple titles in a DVD/BR disc" is
> likely the same, and I don't know if hacking AVFormatContext is the
> right way forward...

yes, thats my oppinion as well
also, i should point at AVStream.disposition & AV_DISPOSITION_DEFAULT
that indicates primary stream, that is the one that should be played
given no reason to do otherwise.
and it would certainly be possible to add a new field to AVStream to
indicate which streams belong together, but 2 streams with differing
codecs must not use the same stream id


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