[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] mxfdec: support AVFMT_FLAG_IGNIDX.

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:05:18AM +0100, Tomas Härdin wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 20:24 +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 03:28:43PM +0100, Tomas Härdin wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 22:18 +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
[...]
> > Under that assumption it would make sense because it fulfills the
> > purpose and in addition allows using the flag as a way
> > to make the demuxer avoid a seek that is not really essential
> > (e.g. when playing over high-latency network file system) and also
> > to allow testing how the demuxer would behave with non-seekable input.
> 
> ffprobe - < foo.mxf
> 
> Regarding high latency links, maybe there should be a flag to force a
> URL to be opened non-seekable? That or the user should remux their files
> to be more suitable for HTTP (like qt-faststart).

i like the idea of such a flag

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