[FFmpeg-devel] Microsoft Smooth Streaming

[Michael Niedermayer]

pOn Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le quartidi 4 brumaire, an CCXX, Marcus Nascimento a écrit :
[...]
> > I'm not sure how a decoder works, but I believe there is a way to configure
> > that in order to receive future "injected" data.
> > 
> > If you get all the way here, I really thank you!
> > I wonder how to fit all this into the ffmpeg structure.
> 
> I will elaborate slightly on top of what Michael wrote.
> 
> The "standard" scheme for ffmpeg has three completely separate layers:
> 
> 	protocol -> demuxer -> codecs
> 
> The protocol takes a string (an URL of some kind) and outputs a stream of
> bytes. The most basic protocol is the file protocol, which takes a file name
> and just reads that file. Protocols can be nested (for example mmsh
> internally uses http which internally uses TCP), but that is an
> implementation detail that is not seen in the API (yet; there are plans to
> do something for complex multistreams protocols).
> 
> The demuxer reads a stream of bytes and then first populates a global data
> structure, including one or several streams. Then it outputs a series of
> packets. Packets are a sequence of bytes attached to a few simple
> informations: size, timestamp, stream of attachment.
> 
> The codecs decode the packets. There is normally one codec per stream,
> except if that stream is ignored. The codec initialize itself with the data
> in the stream data structure, then accepts packets and possibly outputs
> video frames, audio PCM data or anything else (subtitles).
> 
> AFAIK, in ffmpeg, the separation between demuxers and codecs has no real
> exception. Which means that you should be able to ignore completely the
> problem of codecs.
> 
> On the other hand protocols and demuxer sometimes need to work hand in hand.

I think this should be put into docs/ or the trac wiki. Its a very good
highlevel overview of the demuxer/decoder side.

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