[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] AVISynth support

[Steve Lhomme]

Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 04:58:45PM +0200, Steve Lhomme wrote:
>> Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 04:31:16PM +0200, Steve Lhomme wrote:
>>>> I'm actually adding a small header in the raw virtual stream so that I 
>>>> can add a probe to the demuxer. It's not that hard. But adding RIFF 
>>>> headers is a lot more work. Especially since the virtual file is usually 
>>>> much bigger than 4GB. I know it should be OpenDML but I don't know how 
>>>> it's interleaved.
>>> If you don't support seeking IIRC there is no point in using OpenDML, if
>>> you want to support that I think that will be problematic anyway and
>>> probably not possible while keeping the stream/demuxer split, since you
>>> must give AVISynth the frame number you want but stream layer works with
>>> byte position. Or am I missing something?
>> Actually doing the header in the virtual stream is easy. But when I read 
>> the packets I need to set the position at the right packet boundaries so 
>> I have to access the virtual stream even more to do so... So I won't add 
>> it in the end. It's an extra hack for no real life use.
>>
>> Yes, seeking is not only needed in the virtual stream (also called 
>> protocol) but I don't think it would work otherwise with av_stream_info 
>> and stuff like that. At first I just made a demuxer and no virtual 
>> stream. It was working fine but url_ftell() was always wrong and that's 
>> what we use in DrDivX to track progress in the encoding/analysis so I 
>> added the virtual stream.
> 
> hmm, implementing avisynth support purely in the demxuer without any
> stream/protocol also sounds acceptable, do you still have that code?
> the url_ftell() issue can maybe be solved by using AVPacket.pos or
> using AVPacket.dts and AVstream.duration instead

Here is a patch with the older version.

Steve
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