[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Reduce exessive seeking in mov demuxer

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:46:28PM +0200, elupus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch reduces the exessive seeking back and forth using the mov 
> demuxer. Current code selects the next packet to read based on lowest dts 
> of all possible streams. For some reason alot of mov files are muxed in 
> such a way that that isn't always the order in wich they come in the 
> stream. This patch changes the selection to be based on the position in the 
> stream instead.
>
> Now if you know the filesystem has fast seeking, this might not be the best 
> way. But I think it is better to have as default.

the (obvious?) problem is that your patch will totally break files which
arent approximately correctly interleaved
(yeah 2 hours of video before the first audio packet doesnt work, or to say
it differently you will run out of memory to buffer a few gb of video)
still a mov file doing that is perfectly valid ...

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