[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] hls demuxer: add option to defer parsing of variants

[Rainer Hochecker]

> Shouldn't this be:
> 0 (or -1) for all streams (default), n>0 (or > -1) for the nth stream.
> I guess it is at least possible that the user knows in advance which
> streams the source will offer.
> No?
>
> Carl Eugen

It is very unlikely that this is known in advance. Also there is no reason
why you want to load more than a single variant at a time.
Note this are variants, not streams. Different variants bundle the same
streams with different resolutions.

Rainer