[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Seeking API

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:46:42PM -0800, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Do we need a new API for seeking?
> > I think we do
> > 
> > * currently seeking happens based on >=X or <=X this is not truely ideal
> >   for a normal player, for example at position 100sec and seeking 10sec
> >   forward we would prefer 109 over 200sec likely but not 99sec over 200sec
> > * seeking in relation to a single specific stream makes little sense, rather
> >   seeking should happen relative to the set of streams that is presented
> >   to the user (= the ones not disabled by AVStream.discard)
> > 
> > Are there other issues? requirements?
> 

> Yes, I'd like a new AVSEEK_FLAG_FRAMENUM for containers supporting it
> (mov/mp4/r3d)

This also needs a stream_index  and could be done by the user app with
ts= st.index_entries[frame_num].timestamp;



> 
> Not sure if this is much related to seeking:
> I'd like containers to export the AVIndex feature usage and add pts to
> AVIndexEntry, also a way to generate the full AVIndexEntry and have the
> possibility to export it as file to be loaded later.
> 

> Also user needs to specify if he wants to seek by dts or pts and
> therefore what timestamp value refers to.

Is there any use case in which the user wants to seek by dts?

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