[FFmpeg-devel] lame buffer shortage

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 12:03:46AM +0200, Gabriel Bouvigne wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer a ?crit :
> > yes, you speak about the case where future input is needed to encode the
> > next packet, this though has nothing to do with needing more output
> > space
> 
> ...
> 
> > lame does not do proper bitstream formating, it should just output
> > one packet at a time ...
> > every project which uses lame and which ive looked at the source has to
> > parse, break appart and reassemble what lame outputs
> 
> Do you mean that you would prefer to have lame_encode_buffer returning 
> either 0 or 1 frame, but not more at once? 

yes


> In this case you would 
> retrieve potential further frame by providing 0 samples to 
> lame_encode_buffer, until it do not return any more output frames?

yes

also some applications might always feed frame_size samples in the
encoder (like they do currently) and either expect 0 or 1 frames
and then only at the very end try to get the remaining frames


> 
> That would make sense, IMO.
> 
> (actually I do not remember anyone complaining to us about the current 
> behaviour)

well, it seems everyone works around issues if its easy possible instead
of reporting it, thats not the way it should be i agree ...

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