[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavf: add textdata virtual demuxer and demuxer

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Tuesday 2016-06-28 11:42:42 +0200, Nicolas George encoded:
> Le decadi 10 messidor, an CCXXIV, Stefano Sabatini a écrit :
> > +The fftextdata bytestream consists of a sequence of packets. Each
> > +packet starts with a timestamps expressed in a format recognized by
> > +FFmpeg (see
> > + at ref{time duration syntax,,the Time duration section in the ffmpeg-utils(1) manual,ffmpeg-utils})
> > +followed by a sequence of spaces and the base64 encoded data for the
> > +packet, terminated by ";". The data representation may contain
> > +interleaved space characters (a space, a tab, or a newline) which are
> > +ignored.
> > +
> > +At the moment a single stream can be represented by an fftextdata
> > +bytestream.
> 
> I like the idea very much, but I feel the format is not very sympathetic to
> future extensions.
> 

> I had implemented a similar feature in the past, but I did not go to the
> end. My idea was to use the default output format of ffprobe (thus,
> hexadecimal rather than base64). The parser works, but I was stuck with the
> problem that ffprobe outputs -show_format after -show_packets. I can post
> the old patch on the list if you want.

The output of show_format is shown after since there are some
information (e.g. number of read packets) which are available only
after we process the packets. It might be possible to introduce a flag
to show format before the packets (in this case the information could
be missing or inconsistent).

Please send the patch so that I can see your approach.
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