[FFmpeg-devel] [Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Support raw mpegts streams from dvr

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 01:01:11PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> 
> Wolfram Gloger wrote:
> >> From: Nico Sabbi <nsabbi at email.it>
> >> not crucial, but indispensable: think of H264 and mpeg4: they need a
> >> qualificator in teh pmt
> >
> > Ok, for that content Mans' statement may be true.
> > However, DVB for me still is 99.9% mpeg2video and mp2 audio.
> 
> And how do you, in a multiprogram TS, guess which PIDs belong to the same
> program, and with which PCR PID, without the PMT?
> 
> A transport stream without a PMT is no better than an AVI file without
> a header.  It is *invalid*, 

true


> and we should IMO make no attempt to support
> such things.  The harder it is to play bad files, the more incentive for
> people to create them properly in the first place.

i strongly disagree, ffmpegs goal was always to play everything not to reject
things which are invalid just because they are, if we did that ffmpeg wouldnt
even play 10% of all AVI files -> ffmpeg would have no users and noone would
care about it or contribute to it
it also wouldnt reduce the number of broken avi files, people would just
use a different player/demuxer

what can and should be done is to print a warning that the file is invalid
not play big jerk and say "no we wont play this"

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