[FFmpeg-user] MPEG TS+PS parser

[Mark Filipak (ffmpeg)]

On 10/16/2020 10:14 PM, Carl Zwanzig wrote:
> On 10/15/2020 1:44 AM, Mark Filipak (ffmpeg) wrote:
>> Got any suggestions how I should proceed?
> 
> I hate to say this, but you're rather reinventing the wheel (and building it out of toothpicks).

You're absolutely right, Carl.

> There are a fair number of mpeg-ts parsers already out there in a variety of languages ...

Really? Do you mean VOBEdit? All that I've seen are formatted as pretty pictures and all that I've 
seen have errors. I want a plain text format but I can't paste it here because it's too wide for email.

>... and the kind 
> of structure you've used is going to be slow and resource-intensive. If nothing else, if you're 
> using the bash shell use a case statement to separate out the translations (instead of passing 
> everything through one HUGE pipeline).
> 
> (This is not a task for pattern substitution.)

Oh, I know that. I just wanted to get started. Looking at the output (such as it is), I could see 
cases where, for example, bogus start_codes (\x00 00 01) are inside private streams (and elsewhere).

I used SNOBOL about 35 years ago to quickly write very powerful parsers. I'm looking at Unicon now.

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