[Ffmpeg-devel] Demuxing still pictures in dvd's II

[stanley kamithi]

i'll take a look at the ffmpeg.rar file. I tried the patch suggested in '
http://comments.gmane.org
>
> /gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/24165'. folks testing my code  who do DVB
> playback on mythtv reported several problems after that. no one yet has
> reported if my latest suggestion causes playback issues.


but hey, any guidance is better then nothing.

thanks for the info.



On 2/18/06, Jan-Willem Mulder <jwnmulder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> you might want to look at ffmpeg.rar in
> 'cvs\XBMC\docs\sources\dvdplayer\ffmpeg' it contains the entire
> modified ffmpeg source code that we use (XMBC) for our dvdplayer. That
> hack
> suggested in '
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/24165'
> is still in that source and is working ok for us (although it is not ok
> for
> a ffmpeg patch I think :) ).  It is the only solution as far as I know.
> The problem is that you cannot detect if a video stream has ended from
> ffmpeg and neither libdvdnav detects such stills. calling
> avcodec_decode_video twice will output the 'incomplete' frame as you
> already
> have noticed (I believe it is actualy just a flush of the current frame?)
> but it has no use, since you cannot detect the end of a stream. Also, when
> you want to switch to libmpeg2 you have the same problem again. Applying
> that posted hack, you will not need to call avcodec_decode_video. It will
> just work.
>
>
> On 2/18/06, Benjamin Larsson <banan at student.ltu.se> wrote:
> >
> > stanley kamithi wrote:
> >
> > >hello,
> > >
> > >i'm adding dvd menu support to the mythtv project and ran into the
> > problem
> > >described in
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > This might be unrelated, but have you looked through the code for xbmc
> > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmc/) ? They made a dvdplayer and uses
> > ffmpeg in certain parts.
> >
> > MvH
> > Benjamin Larsson
> >
> > --
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> > factual, correct.
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