Currently, AVStream contains an embedded AVCodecContext instance, which
is used by demuxers to export stream parameters to the caller and by
muxers to receive stream parameters from the caller. It is also used
internally as the codec context that is passed to parsers.
In addition, it is also widely used by the callers as the decoding (when
demuxer) or encoding (when muxing) context, though this has been
officially discouraged since Libav 11.
There are multiple important problems with this approach:
- the fields in AVCodecContext are in general one of
* stream parameters
* codec options
* codec state
However, it's not clear which ones are which. It is consequently
unclear which fields are a demuxer allowed to set or a muxer allowed to
read. This leads to erratic behaviour depending on whether decoding or
encoding is being performed or not (and whether it uses the AVStream
embedded codec context).
- various synchronization issues arising from the fact that the same
context is used by several different APIs (muxers/demuxers,
parsers, bitstream filters and encoders/decoders) simultaneously, with
there being no clear rules for who can modify what and the different
processes being typically delayed with respect to each other.
- avformat_find_stream_info() making it necessary to support opening
and closing a single codec context multiple times, thus
complicating the semantics of freeing various allocated objects in the
codec context.
Those problems are resolved by replacing the AVStream embedded codec
context with a newly added AVCodecParameters instance, which stores only
the stream parameters exported by the demuxers or read by the muxers.
Since 596e5d4783, this is not necessary anymore. It also allows to
actually disable the flushing, improving write performance (but
possibly giving worse latency in real-time streaming).
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Also add missing trailing commas, break long codec_tag lines and
add spaces in codec_tag declarations.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Current demuxer recognizes several colorspace formats that begin with 'C420'
but does not yet recognize plain 'C420'. GStreamer's y4menc component
generates .y4m files with a 'C420' colorspace. This new comparison is
placed after the other 'C420' checks so that it doesn't interfere with
them.
Signed-off-by: Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net>
In the name of consistency:
put_byte -> avio_w8
put_<type> -> avio_w<type>
put_buffer -> avio_write
put_nbyte will be made private
put_tag will be merged with avio_put_str
Signed-off-by: Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje@gmail.com>
In the name of consistency:
get_byte -> avio_r8
get_<type> -> avio_r<type>
get_buffer -> avio_read
get_partial_buffer will be made private later
get_strz is left out becase I want to change it later to return
something useful.
Signed-off-by: Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje@gmail.com>
patch by Stefano Sabatini, stefano.sabatini-lala poste.it
along with some spelling/consistency fixes for the long names by me
Originally committed as revision 13649 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
patch by: Björn Axelsson, bjorn d axelsson a intinor d se
thread: [PATCH] Remove static ByteIOContexts, 06 nov 2007
Originally committed as revision 11071 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
used and 'const char*' should be, plus make some function declarations
static if they aren't used outside their declaring source file.
patch by Stefan Huehner stefan%%at%%huehner%%dot%%org
Originally committed as revision 5492 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
Anton Khirnov
Vittorio Giovara
Clément Bœsch
Ronald S. Bultje
Luca Barbato
Diego Biurrun
Martin Storsjö
Mike Melanson
Chris Berov
Mans Rullgard
Diego Elio Pettenò
Daniel Kang
Stefano Sabatini
David Conrad
Aurelien Jacobs
Baptiste Coudurier
Michael Niedermayer
Björn Axelsson
Panagiotis Issaris
Vitor Sessak
Stefan Huehner
Colin Ward
Luca Abeni