[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] fix playback of partial DV files

[Baptiste Coudurier]

Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> currently libavformat handles it badly or not at all when you cut out a
> part of the dv file in the middle.
> This is because it does not checks at all if the headers are actually at
> the place where it expects them.
> Proper error concealment needs more modifications, but attached patch at
> least makes it search for a DV header in dv_read_header, which is enough
> for simple cases like http://multimedia.cx/dv/spacejam-title.40MB.dv
> I also think that based on this a proper auto-detection of DV should be
> possible - for my pet project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/extractor-gtk)
> I implemented it by search for the bytes 1f 07 00 3f or 0x1f 07 00 bf,
> skipping the next four bytes and then checking that the next 8 bytes are all
> ff.

Here is the probe function.

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