[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavf: add ffprobe demuxer

[Nicolas George]

L'octidi 8 vendémiaire, an CCXXV, wm4 a écrit :
> This seems like a rather special use case. Why does it have a demuxer,
> and can't be in your own C code using libavcodec/libavformat?

Of course, it can. It just takes more effort overall. You do not believe
that Stefano and I both started working on a similar project on a whim, do
you? We did it because we felt it would gain time in the long run. Once the
demuxer is there, it is ready for all uses.

I very often have samples triggering bugs that I want to tweak to see what
is causing the bug exactly: timestamps, order of packets, even the payload.
Editing them with a powerful text editor or a perl one-liner beats anything
in terms of efficiency to do so.

> In addition, I think using the ffprobe "format" is an overcomplication,
> and will justify adding even more stuff to the demuxer, until it's a
> similarily complex mess like the ffm demuxer/muxer.

This looks like a "slippery slope" fallacy.

Since it is clearly useful almost only for developers doing debugging, I
would not mind having no probe function or even disabled by default, making
it a non-issue security-wise. Beyond that, I have yet to see an actual
argument against it.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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