[FFmpeg-devel] [rfc] Applehttp proto documentation Was: [FFmpeg-commits] Add Apple HTTP Live Streaming protocol handler

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Monday 2011-03-07 13:04:41 +0200, Martin Storsj? encoded:
> On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
[...]
> > Or we could add an argument to write_header/trailer():
> > int av_write_header2(AVFormatContext *s, int init);
> > int av_write_trailer2(AVFormatContext *s, int uninit);
> > 
> > when init is set to 1 the muxer is initialized before to write the
> > header.
> 
> That feels like overkill and probably would do more than what would be 
> desired here. Mpegts sends these "headers", SDT, PAT and PMT, regularly 
> anyway, after a certain number of packets (see retransmit_si_info in 
> lavf/mpegtsenc.c). It would be enough to have some flag that can be set, 
> saying "please write new headers now", or perhaps named "output stream 
> restarted" or something similar, that would force these to be written.

Good idea, maybe a MpegTSWrite.stream_restarted would do. I'll try to
hack a patch for it.
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