[FFmpeg-user] FFmpeg - Is it really difficult to use FFmpeg

[Austin Einter]

I am trying to use ffmpeg, and have been doing a lot of experiment last 1 month.
I have not been able to get through. Is it really difficult to use FFmpeg?

My requirement is simple as below.
Can you please guide me if ffmpeg is suitable one or I have implement
on my own (using codec libs available).

1. I have a webm file (having VP8 and OPUS frames)
2. I will read the encoded data and send it to remote guy
3. The remote guy will read the encoded data from socket
4. The remote guy will write it to a file (can we avoid decoding).
5. Then remote guy should be able to pay the file using ffplay or any player.




Now I will take a specific example.
1. Say I have a file small.webm, containing VP8  and OPUS frames.

2. I am reading only audio frames (OPUS) using av_read_frame api (Then
checks stream index and filters audio frames only)

3. So now I have data buffer (encoded) as packet.data and encoded data
buffer size as packet.size (Please correct me if wrong)

4. Here is my first doubt, everytime audio packet size is not same,
why the difference. Sometimes packet size is as low as 54 bytes and
sometimes it is 420 bytes. For OPUS will frame size vary from time to
time?

5. Next say somehow extract a single frame (really do not know how to
extract a single frame) from packet and send it to remote guy.

6. Now remote guy need to write the buffer to a file. To write the
file we can use av_interleaved_write_frame or av_write_frame api. Both
of them takes AVPacket as argument. Now I can have a AVPacket, set its
data and size member. Then I can call av_write_frame api. But that
does not work. Reason may be one should set other members in packet
like ts, dts, pts etc. But I do not have such informations to set.


Can somebody help me to learn if FFmpeg is the right choice, or should
I write a custom logic like parse a opus file and get frame by frame.