[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] additinal desc_type for dtshd mpeg-ts demuxer

[Nico Sabbi]

On Monday 09 June 2008 09:48:34 M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> "Ian Caulfield" <ian.caulfield at gmail.com> writes:
> > 2008/6/9 Andreas ?man <andreas at olebyn.nu>:
> >> M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >>> Is it correct to use the same codec id?  Can AC3/DTS decoders
> >>> in general handle all the variants?  Might an lavf-using app
> >>> want to distinguish between them?
> >>
> >> IEC958 (SPDIF) comes to mind.
> >> You might want to configure AC3, DTS, etc to be sent directly to
> >> a AV receiver, but such receiver might not be able to decode DTS
> >> HD and such, so it is necessary to be able to distinguish
> >> between the variants.
> >>
> >> Ether we could add more codec IDs or use sub_id. Dunno what's
> >> best though.
> >
> > I think DTS is meant to fallback nicely - a decoder that can
> > handle DTS but not DTS-HD should be able to decode a DTS-HD
> > stream as just 1.5mbs DTS and ignore the extra data... not sure
> > if that's true in practice though!
>
> However that may be, it still means losing data.  In such a
> situation I'd want to use a software decoder for DTS-HD streams.

IMO a different stream type requires a different codec_id/decoder pair