Missing docs found by: nevcairiel
RFC: should we add support so that the C field names always work as av option names/keys ?
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
Until now, the decoding API was restricted to outputting 0 or 1 frames
per input packet. It also enforces a somewhat rigid dataflow in general.
This new API seeks to relax these restrictions by decoupling input and
output. Instead of doing a single call on each decode step, which may
consume the packet and may produce output, the new API requires the user
to send input first, and then ask for output.
For now, there are no codecs supporting this API. The API can work with
codecs using the old API, and most code added here is to make them
interoperate. The reverse is not possible, although for audio it might.
From Libav commit 05f66706d1.
Signed-off-by: Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net>
Until now, the decoding API was restricted to outputting 0 or 1 frames
per input packet. It also enforces a somewhat rigid dataflow in general.
This new API seeks to relax these restrictions by decoupling input and
output. Instead of doing a single call on each decode step, which may
consume the packet and may produce output, the new API requires the user
to send input first, and then ask for output.
For now, there are no codecs supporting this API. The API can work with
codecs using the old API, and most code added here is to make them
interoperate. The reverse is not possible, although for audio it might.
Signed-off-by: Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net>
* commit '7fbb3b5b9857276b4cd17b2a530c7e0880d2bc0a':
lavf: use the io_open callbacks for files opened from open_input() as well
Merged-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
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.
This also deprecates our old duplicated callbacks.
* commit '9f61abc8111c7c43f49ca012e957a108b9cc7610':
lavf: allow custom IO for all files
Merged-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
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.
* commit '21ab6fd01b9107d7171fc1a77c2bfacff845a97a':
lavf: document that passing valid timestamps to muxers is now mandatory
Merged-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
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.
* commit '34ed5c2e4d9b7fe5c9b3aae2da5599fabb95c02e':
avformat: Do not use AVFMT_RAWPICTURE
Removal from ffmpeg.c not merged because some parts of avdevice
still use it
Merged-by: Hendrik Leppkes <h.leppkes@gmail.com>
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>
