[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v6 0/1] avformat: add Software Defined Radio support

[Kieran Kunhya]

>
> You can design something starting with a filter and then define everything
> a subclass of filter.
> you can design things with no common class and everything different types.
>
> But whatever you call the class for the SDR code and the class of the
> common
> demuxers. Their do look very darn similar
> they should IMHO have a common parent class.
>
> Call one Demuxer and one Transport but they still do take one input stream
> (a stream of complex values in case of SDR) and spit out multiple streams
> raw audio, raw video, mpegts.
> And same way (other) demuxers also can return raw audio, raw video, mpegts
>

False, SDR is doing active DSP processing on the input data, a normal demux
is not, it's working in a domain where something upstream (network
card+TCP/IPstack, capture card) has done this part. Ergo, by extension SDR
should be done upstream as lots of people have been saying.

Kieran