[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] fix reading first mpegps packet

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 02:23:02AM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On 17 Sep 2011, at 14:59, Arne de Bruijn <mail at arnedebruijn.nl> wrote:
> > The first packet of mpeg pes files (starting with 00 00 01 e0) is ignored by
> > ffmpeg because the sofdec-detection in mpegps_read_header eats the first
> > byte. This patch adds a seek to prevent this problem (apparently the
> > existing code tries to solve this by modifying m->header_state but this
> > doesn't help since m->header_state is overwritten at the start of
> > mpegps_read_pes_header).
> 
> Won't that solution keep the problem around in case of stream/piping input so it is not seekable?

its the very start of the file so failure would implicate that the
buffer is less than 6 bytes. This seems unlikely to me
even more so as more is needed for probing



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