[FFmpeg-cvslog] r19173 - trunk/libavformat/adtsenc.c

[Måns Rullgård]

Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:08:16AM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> writes:
>> 
>> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:44:33AM +0200, Benjamin Larsson wrote:
>> >> Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
>> >> > Huh? That may be true for the particularly ugly formats, but there
>> >> > should be quite few formats/codecs where it doesn't.
>> >> > Also, a libavcommon wouldn't help a bit with that issue, so it that
>> >> > seems irrelevant in this discussion...
>> >> 
>> >> Most stuff is broken without codecs.
>> >
>> > Examples? Also I think it is possible to have the parser without the
>> > codecs, though I think it currently doesn't save much space.
>> > What are the codecs needed for except containers that contain
>> > insufficient data (basically MPEG-*)?
>> 
>> MPEG-* contains sufficient data to pass the elementary streams to the
>> correct decoder.  Stop claiming otherwise.
>
> Yes, but the libavformat API currently promises more AFAIK: properly
> split frames, at least some reasonable values for width/height/fps etc.
> So for libavformat MPEG-* does not contain sufficient data. Whether the
> conclusion is to wish for MPEG-* containers to die or to change
> libavformat or something in-between is a different question.

This means that lavf is unsuitable for the files it is meant to
handle.  Well done.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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