[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] flvdec: Remove AVFMTCTX_NOHEADER when there is only 1 stream

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 07:58:24AM -0400, compn wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 11:07:56 +0100, Asad Mehmood wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >I've written a patch which will unset the NOHEADER flag when a flv's metadata
> >contains hasAudio false or hasVideo false. This allows an flv with only 1 stream
> >to be played without waiting for av_find_stream_info to read upto probesize
> >which is very slow when playing flv's over the network.
> >
> 
> does this work with files that are concacted together?
> 
> cat 1.flv 2.flv > 3.flv 
> 
> the flv specs say this is allowed i think.

if 1.flv has only an audio stream and 2.flv has only a video stream
then you will have problems before and afterwards
if 1.flv is short it might work before and fail afterwards

is this a really occuring use case out in the wild that 2 files that
have different stream types are concatenated ?


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