[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]Auto-detection for concat demuxer

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Sun Feb 3 22:21:24 CET 2013


On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 09:55:45PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le quintidi 15 pluviôse, an CCXXI, Carl Eugen Hoyos a écrit :
> > I meant that you could replace your patch 3/3 with my 
> > patch and the result would be as safe as with your patch 
> > or is this wrong?
> 
> Yes, that is probably true.
> 
> > I remember that you wanted to extend the script, but I 
> > think it is trivial to extend my probing patch at the 
> > same time.
> 
> Depending on how it is done, it would require an update to the probing
> function for each new directive.
> 
> And in general, I dislike the principle of probing based on guessing using
> internal patterns of the format: whenever, checking an unambiguous signature
> is much better. And that is exactly what this patch series does: add an
> unambiguous signature to concat scripts.

maybe the 2 probing approuches could be combined so that old files
without the signature would be probed too

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