[FFmpeg-devel] avformat/movenc: add param for filtering nal types

[Eran Kornblau]

Hi all,

The attached patch adds a parameter that enables the user to choose which AVC/HEVC NAL units to include in the output.
The parameter is supplied as a bitmask in order to keep things simple.

A short background on why we need it - in our transcoding process, we partition the video in chunks, the chunks are
transcoded in parallel and packaged in MPEG-TS container. The transcoded TS chunks are then concatenated and
packaged in MP4. These MP4 files are later repackaged on-the-fly to various protocols (HLS/DASH etc.) using our
JIT packager.
For performance reasons (can get into more detail if anyone's interested...), when packaging the MP4 to DASH/CENC,
we configure the packager to assume that each AVC frame contains exactly one NAL unit.
The problem is that the transition through MPEG-TS adds additional NAL units (NAL AUD before each frame + SPS/PPS
before each key frame), and this assumption fails.
Using the attached patch we can pass '-nal_types_mask 0x3e' which will make ffmpeg output only VCL NALs in the stream.

Thanks!

Eran
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