[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Playlist API

Geza Kovacs gkovacs
Sat Aug 1 20:24:45 CEST 2009


On 08/01/2009 09:43 AM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>> also does mixing concateated inputs and non concatenate inputs work?
>>> that is if we want to combine a single moview with 3 concatenated mp3s
>>>
>>
>> Since you're talking about mixing concatenated and non concatenated
>> inputs, I'm assume you meant "m3u" not "mp3"? (If you really did mean
>> mp3, I don't think concatenating audio-video files with pure audio files
>> is a good idea, since there wouldn't be anything to display except a
>> blank screen while the audio is playing and the video stream has run
>> out, which I'm fairly certain isn't the intent of the user). Anyhow, yes
> 
> i meant one video that uses 3 concatenated mp3s as audio, like a music
> video.
> 

I believe the bulk of this task sounds a bit more like "manually muxing
streams" than concatenating them, since the audio and video streams are
interleaved rather than appended onto each other. Since there's little
overlap in terms of the code needed to implement muxing and
concatenation, I think these should tasks should be logically separate
notions and should be implemented as separate interfaces, something like
the following:

ffmpeg -conc -i audio1,audio2,audio3 audiofull
ffmpeg -mux -i audiofull,videofull final

In the first case, the playlist API would be used, while in the second a
stream muxing API would be used - if the latter is not yet present and
is needed I can probably implement it after SoC, but that would be a
separate patch.

> a seperate thing would be concatenating videos that each have several audio
> streams (that is for different languages) but some languages only for one
> of the 2
> 

Again, I think separating out the desired audio and video streams and
manually muxing them with a separate muxing API is a more logical way to
do this rather than adding barely-related functionality into the
playlist API.



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