[Ffmpeg-devel] mpeg transport streams

[Marcus Hunger]

Am 1 Jun 2005 um 18:10 hat M?ns Rullg?rd geschrieben:

> Could you explain the what theory of operation you have used?  What
> are the changes you made to the demuxer?

The main idea I wanted to implement was that the difference of two pcrs and the 
amount of data written between the accurrence of them define the actual bitrate. 
Assuming a constant bitrate is needed, this leads to two requirements:

- there must be pcrs.
- the value of these pcrs must be calculated using a defined bitrate and the amount of 
data written since the previous pcr.

Furthermore, pts/dts of the frame-data shouldn't be too much in front of the pcr to 
reduce caching demands on the player. So I orientated the pcrs written at the pts of 
actual frame. To still keep a constant bitrate, null-packets are inserted until the pcr 
equals about the pts.

- null-packets

Pts-values being in the past of pcrs don't make much sense, so every pts as increased 
by a constant offset (say 50000).

- pts += 50000

To meet mpegts/dvb requirements of a maximum pcr-interval, a ts-packet with a pcr is 
written after a certain interval.

- pcr-interval

Frames do not get interleaved which should be no problem at high bitrates.

All bitrate/pcr algorithms are only done for video-frames, which should be changed to 
using the frames of the pcr-pid.

The base of all timing is the amount of data written and the pts-values. The rtc of the pc 
is not used.

I introduced setting a discontinuity indicator for the first pcr so concatenating ts-files 
should be possible. Doing this still causes cc-discontinuity-errors and I have no easy 
idea how to avoid them.



About the changes in the demuxer: I made these to tune into a certain dvb-service 
specified by it's name. The changes shouldn't break ffmpeg's current behaviour but I 
would agree in excluding it from this patch (if anyone complains).

regards,
Marcus HungerMUGLER AG
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