[Ffmpeg-devel] Frame rates and time_base

[Måns Rullgård]

Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> writes:

>> >> > will you fix the ogg2 demuxer for video stream ?
>> >> 
>> >> Um, yeah... been a bit busy lately.  I just had a look at your patch.
>> >> Unfortunately, the only theora samples I could easily locate
>> >> (mplayerhq.ftp samples), doesn't want to decode at all.  Are some
>> >> special incantations required to make theora decode with libavcodec?
>> >
>> > Yes, the demuxer somehow has to repack the "header packets" at the
>> > beginning of the stream into "extradata"..
>> 
>> I get that, and that's also what I did, and got garbage results.
>> Looking at the source code, I see it's not quite complete.  I'll try
>> using libtheora instead.
>
> There are several header packets which somehow need to be delimited in
> extradata, and afaik no specification on how it's supposed to be done.
> Leave it to Xiph to come up with something as idiotic as multiple
> header packets just for the sake of making it hard to store Theora in
> other containers than ogg...

I know all about that.  Obviously, I used whatever formatting
libavcodec expects.  What I didn't know, was the libavcodec theora
decoder doesn't work at all.  I knew it was missing something, but
wasn't sure how much.

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