[FFmpeg-devel] [WIP] Seek / subfile support in concat demuxer

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 08:50:12PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> This patch series is work in progress to implement the "seek" option in the
> concat demuxer, that allows extracting a part of the file, with exact
> accuracy.
> 
> It could serve as a base to implement EDL support for formats that require
> then.
> 
> For video, it defines a new packet flag that informs libavcodec to decode
> the frame (it may serve as reference frame for a frame we want) but not
> return it to the user.
> 
> For audio, it uses the SKIP_SAMPLES side data.
> 

> Using side data for video too instead of a flag would also be an option, I
> have no strong opinion about it.

i neither have a strong oppinon but side data would be more consistent
also side data would allow conveyng the information earlier
that is a keyframe could already contain the exact duration covering
multiple frames that should be discarded
and in theory side data would allow cutting a frame in half
if for example in case of a slide show frames sra displayed for
significat time (iam not suggesting to implement this ATM though)


> 
> For now, it works with threads disabled, but I get some strange
> thread-related decoding errors, see trac ticket #3406.
> 
> [PATCH 1/6] lavc/pthread: copy packet side data.
> [PATCH 2/6] lavu: add pkt_flags field to AVFrame.
> [PATCH 3/6] lavc: add AV_PKT_FLAG_DISCARD.
> [PATCH 4/6] lavu/frame: add AV_FRAME_DATA_SKIP_SAMPLES.
> [PATCH 5/6] lavc/utils: bind SKIP_SAMPLES to the frame.
> [PATCH 6/6] concat: support seeking inside sub-files [WIP].
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