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.
Note to maintainers: update tools
Note to maintainers: set a default whitelist for your protocol
If that makes no sense then consider to set "none" and thus require the user to specify a white-list
for sub-protocols to be opened
Note, testing and checking for missing changes is needed
Reviewed-by: Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
Some (de)muxers open additional files beyond the main IO context.
Currently, they call avio_open() directly, which prevents the caller
from using custom IO for such streams.
This commit adds callbacks to AVFormatContext that default to
avio_open2()/avio_close(), but can be overridden by the caller. All
muxers and demuxers using AVIO are switched to using those callbacks
instead of calling avio_open()/avio_close() directly.
(de)muxers that use the URLProtocol layer directly instead of AVIO
remain unconverted for now. This should be fixed in later commits.
This solves the problem discussed in https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2015-September/179238.html
by allowing AVCodec::write_header to be delayed until after packets have been
run through required bitstream filters in order to generate global extradata.
It also provides a mechanism by which a muxer can add a bitstream filter to a
stream automatically, rather than prompting the user to do so.
All encoders set pts and dts properly now (and have been doing that for
a while), so there is no good reason to do any timestamp guessing in the
muxer.
The newly added AVStreamInternal will be later used for storing all the
private fields currently living in AVStream.
Move field to internal part of AVStream and struct to internal.h
Reviewed-by: Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
Also fix typo found by Lou Logan:
Sacrifying -> Sacrificing
Reviewed-by: Lou Logan <lou@lrcd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Cadhalpun <Andreas.Cadhalpun@googlemail.com>
During remuxing avcodec_copy_context() is discouraged as certain fields
(such as codec_tag) could reflect invalid values between input and
output contextes.
This comment can be traced back to the initial commit from 2001,
and it seemed to be misleading/incorect already back then. (It
was used for normal, non-raw file formats already then.)
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
This is the same logic as is invoked on AVFMT_TS_NEGATIVE,
but which can be enabled manually, or can be enabled
in muxers which only need it in certain conditions.
Also allow using the same mechanism to force streams to start
at 0.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
This allows restricting demuxers to a list of needed ones for improved security
Note, some demuxers themselfs open other demuxers, these are only restricted if
AVOptions are forwarded to them. Please check that your code does that.
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
This makes the field consistent with AVInputFormat.mime_type and the
argument type of av_match_name.
Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
Anton Khirnov
Diego Biurrun
Michael Niedermayer
Rodger Combs
Ganesh Ajjanagadde
John Stebbins
Luca Barbato
James Almer
Carl Eugen Hoyos
Andreas Cadhalpun
Michael Niedermayer
wm4
Mariusz Szczepańczyk
Reimar Döffinger
Vittorio Giovara
Anshul Maheshwari
Martin Storsjö
Lukasz Marek