[FFmpeg-devel] Stream selection - how to?

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

2008/7/3 Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>:
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 10:34:09AM -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
>> > First explain what stream relations you are talking about and vs. what
>> > other non relations it has to be distinguished from.
>> >
>> > We have AVProgram to seperate unrelated stream bundles. We have
>> > disposition, language, codec.bitrate/width/height/sample_rate/CODEC_TYPE_*
>> > to seperate the streams within such a stream bundle.
>>
>> I'm talking about related (so not DVB-like bundles as in AVProgram)
>> streams, such as a RTSP/MMS stream with different codecs/bitrates.
>>
>
>> Let's start with this one: how do I select language W or bitrate
>> X(k)bps-Y(k)bps or codec Z in ffplay (regardless of input)
>
> v and a keys in theory ... i dunno if that works though, also it is badly
> lacking some feedback about what is available and what is selected ...

OK, so I just started understanding this. I don't think it's
sufficient (surprise! :) ). Here's the problem (same for MMS): for the
current implementation, my understanding is that basically the demuxer
returns all packets and then ffplay.c decides what to queue and
forward to the decoder. For MMS/RTSP, you'll not receive all packets
from the demuxer to begin with, only one stream can be selected, and
the server has to be notified on a stream-change. Then, the server
will return packets for the newly selected stream instead.

I guess it means I'll have to extend ffplay.c and the whole ecosystem
to notify te demuxer on a stream-change? Same thing for
wanted_audio/*_stream? Should I be using AVDISCARD_* for this, or is
there a different API or do I need to create something new?

Ronald