[FFmpeg-user] raw input from named pipes, order of frame delivery

[Roger Pack]

> The problem is, that the delivery of the YUV and PCM Frames is async.
> CarbonCoder delivers first 1 Audio sample that covers the next 120ms, then
> it delivers 3 video frames and so on....
> In a testprogram where i deliver 40ms video, then 40ms audio and so on,
> everything works fine, but in the real program, ffmpeg blocks one of the
> pipes after like 80ms of delivered Material.
>
> My first guess was to specify input framerate for the audio like:
> -acodec s16le -ar 48000 -ac2 -r 8 -i \\.\pipe\audio
>
> But this doesnt seem to work.
>
> Is there any way to control the reading behaviour in a way i need it?

There is an "abuffer" filter, but I don't know what is causing your
real behavior, unless maybe your parameters are wrong so one side is
getting "ahead" of the other, etc.  Can you record streams separately?