[Libav-user] AVPacket serialization

[Hamilton Tobon Mosquera]

Hi there,

I'm working on an IoT project that uses libav to capture streams of 
audio/video and sends (using other library) them to the network, over 
UDP. The AVPackets are received (by the other library) as a bunch of 
bytes and interpreted by libav again in the other end. I was looking up 
for a libav built-in way to serialize an AVPacket and send it to the 
network, but couldn't find it.

Is there such a thing?.

Is this idea of serializing an AVPacket and reading it at the other end 
a good idea?.

If by using UDP some AVPacket loses some information, would it be 
reconstructible again by libav?.

In case that I have to use my own serializer, I don't know what 
information in the AVPacket struct is relevant and what information is 
not. Could you please tell me what fields are mandatory for proper 
reconstruction of the packet at the other end?.

If you can point me to some documentation I would be more than grateful.

Thank you.

Hamilton.