[Ffmpeg-devel] mpegts pid values

[Nicolas Roussel]

> Many of the lower values have special meanings, are reserved, or have
> special meanings in common uses of MPEG-TS, such as DVB.

> There is generally no reason to set the PIDs explicitly.  Any  
> values should
> work, and assigning them automatically simplifies things for the  
> caller.

VLC has an option for specifying these pids. I guess it must be used by
a few people.

In my case, MPEG-TS data is being sent by UDP to a set-top-box that  
expects
the video and audio streams to have particular pids.

If low values are to be avoided, how can I use the AVStream id?

Would something like this be ok?

     if (st->id >= EXPLICITELY_SET_PID)
         ts_st->pid = st->id - EXPLICITELY_SET_PID ;
     else
         ts_st->pid = DEFAULT_START_PID + i;

Nicolas