[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 4/4] lavf/mov: Add support for edit list parsing.

Sasi Inguva isasi at google.com
Fri Aug 19 19:49:26 EEST 2016


I don't know who the owner of MOV demuxer is. If somebody could do a deeper
review of this patch and approve it that would be great.

Thanks,
Sasi

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Sasi Inguva <isasi at google.com> wrote:

> Thanks
>
> On Aug 17, 2016 6:25 AM, "Clément Bœsch" <u at pkh.me> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 07:04:56PM -0700, Sasi Inguva wrote:
>> > Changes done. Also commented in the code about the differences between
>> the add_index_entry function and teh ff_add_index_entry function.
>> >
>> > About stream copy, yes there will be a big behavior difference when
>> doing "-c copy" for files with edit lists.
>> > Currently, ignoring edit lists we will copy all packets from input to
>> output. So for videos with edit lists the current way of stream copy is
>> already semantically wrong. In summary these will be the changes with this
>> patch
>> > i) For videos with no edit lists - no change.
>> > ii) For videos with one edit list in their streams
>> >           - Only portion of the video from the closest keyframe before
>> the edit list begins, to the closest keyframe after the edit list ends will
>> be copied.
>> >           - All audio from the start of the audio stream to the end of
>> the edit will be copied.
>> >
>> > iii) For videos with multiple edit lists in their streams
>> >           - For video, the timestamps can be non-monotonocially
>> increasing. Keyframe packets might be repeated. etc.
>> >           - For audio too, timestamps can be non-monotonically
>> increasing. For each edit list we will output packets from the start of the
>> audio stream, so audio will be repeated.
>> >
>> > Though points (ii) and (iii) might look dangerous, we should keep in
>> mind that it is very hard, and maybe impossible to implement proper stream
>> copy of only those portions of streams which are inside edit lists. We need
>> a way to mark some frames as decode-and-discard, and maybe writing edit
>> lists in case of MOV container is a way but if we are doing  -c copy to
>> some other container, it won't be possible mostly. If (ii) and (iii) sound
>> unacceptable I can gate the mov_fix_index function behind a no-stream-copy
>> condition, if there is a way to do so.
>> >
>>
>> OK.
>>
>> So. I've made some test with a bunch of personal samples from different
>> different sources and it fixes the playback for all of them. I don't have
>> much more comment as it seems to work well. I'm not the maintainer of the
>> MOV demuxer though, so don't take this as a OK.
>>
>> Someone should probably do a deeper review (hint: look at mov_fix_index()
>> in particular)
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>> Clément B.
>>
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