[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] matroska: Add incremental parsing of clusters.

[Dale Curtis]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Reimar Döffinger
<Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 05:20:00PM -0700, dalecurtis at chromium.org wrote:
> > Currently incremental parsing is not supported for files with
> > SSA tracks since they require merging packets between clusters.
> > In this case the code falls back to non-incremental parsing.
>
> Without reading the code: is it absolutely 100% certain that only
> SSA needs that? Not e.g. also other subtitle formats or such?
>
> matroska_merge_packets is only called for CODEC_ID_SSA and it's the only
call site in the code base. So yes, as far as I can tell that's the only
situation which doesn't work with incremental parsing.

- dale