[FFmpeg-devel] Encoding single frame

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 09:25:19AM +0100, Roelof van Wyk wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I need to do the following:
> 
> 
> 1.       Decode a H264 stream and identify a certain B frame/picture
> 
> 2.       Perform some modifications to the frame
> 
> 3.       Re-encode _only_ that frame and insert back into the original stream, without any modifications to the surrounding frames. I do not want to re-encode the entire stream
> 
> So if the input GOP is IBBPBBPBBP..., the output GOP must be IBBPB'PBBP...
> 
> Does the ffmpeg/libav API allow the encoder context to be initialized from the decoder context such that this can be done, and if so, can anybody provide me with some ideas or examples?

first, in general this is not possible in h264, B frames can be used
as reference by other B and P frames.
if your input doesnt use B frames that way or you dont mind that
subsequent frames will be affected, then
to do such reencoding you would have to extract all parameters from
SPS/PPS, referece frames, and initialize an encoder (x264 probably)
accordingly.
Theres no canned API to do that anywhere i know of.

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