[Libav-user] Find audio frames headers within bitstream

[Paul B Mahol]

On 11/7/18, Vasiliy Volkov <volk.vasiliy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, again,
>
> we've encountered an issue with decoding audio streams. Sometimes audio
> codec headers are not aligned to PES packets (we work with mpegts). So when
> we try to decode such streams libav decoder fails, because he can't find
> where to start decoding process. For such task libav has parsers, which
> need to be used for correct decoding arbitrary bitstreams: first you find
> position of header, next send to decoder. We've find that there are exists
> private api for such task: libavcodec/mpegaudiodecheader.h but it's
> private, and using it in our project is not very clean way, and all public
> API's requires to use avio* methods which we don't like to use.
>
> Is there any other of private API way to find audio frames headers
> positions?
>

What is wrong with using parsers?