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.
Previously, AVStream.codec.time_base was used for that purpose, which
was quite confusing for the callers. This change also opens the path for
removing AVStream.codec.
The change in the lavf-mkv test is due to the native timebase (1/1000)
being used instead of the default one (1/90000), so the packets are now
sent to the crc muxer in the same order in which they are demuxed
(previously some of them got reordered because of inexact timestamp
conversion).
Yes this breaks ABI/API but ive already broken it and will bump avutil major
soon.
Originally committed as revision 17869 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
The name offset_t is easily confused with the standard off_t type and
*_t is POSIX reserved namespace if any POSIX header is included.
Originally committed as revision 15533 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
Consistently apply this rule: the guard name is obtained from the
filename by stripping the leading "lib", converting '/' and '.' to
'_' and uppercasing the resulting name. Guard names in the root
directory have to be prefixed by "FFMPEG_".
Originally committed as revision 15120 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
Log:
Add missing header #includes.
Limited to ffm.h & swf.h which are maintained by baptiste who requested that
version to be kept.
Originally committed as revision 14501 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
Log:
Add missing header #includes.
Policy violation (change not approved by maintainer)
and while discussions where ongoing and no consensus has been reached.
Originally committed as revision 14500 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
Diego Biurrun
Anton Khirnov
Clément Bœsch
Justin Ruggles
Michael Bradshaw
Mans Rullgard
Carl Eugen Hoyos
Baptiste Coudurier
Michael Niedermayer
Stefano Sabatini