[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] fix sdp(file) vs rtsp dep

Luca Abeni lucabe72
Tue Oct 20 11:31:25 CEST 2009


Luca Barbato wrote:
> Luca Abeni wrote:
>> I think these dependencies are correct as they are now: the RTSP demuxer
>> depends on the SDP demuxer, and not vice-versa (or, if you prefer, the
>> RTSP demuxer is a superset of the SDP demuxer). From the practical point
>> of view, I do not think this makes any difference, but from the
>> theoretical point of view I think it's better to indicate the correct
>> dependency here.
> 
> It's the other way round.
> 
> the current "sdp demuxer" is something that fetches a file, guesses it
> as a stream description dump and then uses the rtsp functions to
> actually "play" it.

Well, I do not know why the current code is written like this, but from
the theoretical point of view an RTSP demuxer is just an SDP demuxer +
some methods to fetch the SDP via RTSP, and some methods to seek, etc.

The problem with the current code is IMHO just in the naming.


			Luca



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