[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] qtrleenc autogop

[Baptiste Coudurier]

Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:56:17AM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
>> Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 02:16:24PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 01:01:33PM +0200, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:51:44PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:14:36PM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
>>>>>>> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 03:07:02PM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> $subject. It should be more efficient,
>>>>>>>> it breaks seeking if iam not misreading the patch, one can only seek to
>>>>>>>> keyframes and the patch would stop keyframes from being used except for
>>>>>>>> the very first frame
>>>>>>> File works perfectly with quicktime player ;)
>>>>>> quicktime can seek in files that have only a single keyframe by
>>>>>> decoding all frames after the keyframe?
>>>>> Yes, and it actually caches a few decoded frames AFAIK, so as long as
>>>>> you seek only a little bit it seems okay.
>>>> i guess that would make a nice feature request for ffplay ...
>>> Well, but there might be some additional codec state, so you can't use
>>> the frames alone to reset the codec to some earlier state.
>>> I should probably get myself more informed before I make any statements,
>>> but I think that caching is mostly to enable frame-stepping backwards.
>> Yes, even with one keyframe you can seek through the entire movie, it
>> will read and decode to the frame requested. Like Reimar pointed, it
>> might take a few minutes, but it should still work.
>>
>> I think a gop 0 feature would be nice.
> 
> what do you mean by gop 0 ?
> 
> gop=0 means intra only (avcodec.h:
> "the number of pictures in a group of pictures, or 0 for intra_only")

Well, by history yes, gop 1 would have been easier.

I'd like a way to specify autogop: ie don't care about gop size, just
about scenechange/difference.

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