[Libav-user] FLV logic question

[Mark Stevans]

Thanks for the quick reply, Hendrik.  But you say that the data is 
*already* stored somewhere: I just don't see how that is possible.  When 
you open a random FLV clip file, the first thing you usually encounter 
is the Metadata packet.  How can you know what codec is being used, the 
height/width, etc. without parsing that metadata?  I mean, isn't that 
why it's put there at the start of the file?

Or does FFMPEG rely on elaborate probing methods to deduce that metadata 
in the case where no header is present, and so, for consistency, it just 
ignores the header metadata if it *is* present?

On 6/20/2013 6:59 AM, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Mark Stevans <mark39518 at cesinst.com> wrote:
>> Frankly, I'm baffled by lines 445-457 of the trunk version of
>> "libavformat/flvdec.c".  Can anyone explain their purpose?  Thanks!
>>
>
> These metadata properties are already stored in the codec/stream
> config structures, so it doesn't make any sense to duplicate them into
> the metadata, and are therefor skipped.
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