[Libav-user] Converting ts to DASH using libavformat

[Simon Brown]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 11:28, Simon Brown <simon.k.brown at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> See the "remuxing.c" example.
>> Use avcodec_parameters_copy to copy the codecpar from the demuxer's
>> AVStream to the muxer's one.
>>
>> Thanks James - that's exactly what I needed.  Now I just need to pass all
> the parameters I need into the dash muxer and I'll be sorted.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>

Ok, next problem - I have parsed all the command line parameters and
assigned them to the output context using:

    ret = avformat_write_header(ofmt_ctx, &opt);

where opt contains the options dictionary.  I know it is accepting this
because the returned dictionary is empty.  Also, I know because it is
clearing out older .m4s segment files so that my disk doesn't fill up, so
it's accepting the window_size parameter.  What it's not doing though, when
it runs, is outputting continuously updated manifest.mpd data - which if I
run ffmpeg with the same command line options I do get.  So ultimately my
manifest.mpd file has a single segment in it, and my dash player never
plays anything.

Looking through dashenc.c it would appear that the manifest should be
updated whenever write_packet is called, and I'm assuming this is called
because otherwise I wouldn't get the .m4s files being output.  But
something must be failing here.  Is there anyway I can see what options the
dash mux is using and why it wouldn't be outputting manifest updates?

To write the frames out I am using the same line as in remuxing.c, namely:

        ret = av_interleaved_write_frame(ofmt_ctx, &pkt);

should I just use av_write_frame?

Regards,
Simon
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