[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 4/8] avfiltergraph: add avfilter_graph_request_oldest().

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:31:43PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas George <nicolas.george at normalesup.org>
> ---
>  libavfilter/avfiltergraph.c |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  libavfilter/avfiltergraph.h |   10 ++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> This is used to trigger movement inside the graph.
> 
> If the graph is connected, a request on any link will cause frames to
> circulate more or less everywhere, and thus, the actual choice of which link
> to request on is not important.
>

> If the graph is not connected, we could request a frame on any component, it
> would not have any advert effect on the filtering process. Then we have to
> take a guess at what the user wants to do with the frames when they come
> out. A common case is to mux them together, and therefore require, more or
> less, the frames to be ordered by timestamp. Thus, requesting on the oldest
> link is a good guess.

iam not sure about this
what happens if one seperate sub graph is fed by a real time broadcast
and the other is fed by a file on disk. ?

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