[Libav-user] Question about usage of libav in an application

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

2017-02-08 23:40 GMT+01:00 Team Lixo <teamlixo at gmail.com>:

> Is it possible to read/decode more than one media stream in one single
> thread? i.e. round-robin each AVFormatContext, calling av_read_frame once,
> decoding, and moving onto the next packet/frame in this fashion?

If you have multiple contexts that you handle independently then I don't
see what the issue could be (except that this may be inefficient).

> Or, is it possible to achieve the same thing, with each stream being on its
> own thread (constructing the AVFormatContext, reading input, decoding)?

This sounds more suitable for typical contemporary hardware.

> In essence, I am looking to decode multiple streams in one process.

I believe this is what the ffmpeg application does if your input file
contains several streams.

Carl Eugen