[Ffmpeg-devel] avformat/mpegts reads too much data for lowbitratestreams

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Thursday 09 June 2005 12:20, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Fabrice Bellard <fabrice at bellard.org> writes:
> > M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >> Sergio Garcia Murillo <sgm254 at tid.es> writes:
> >>>> I've been using libavformat/codec in an application in the works
> >>>> for some time now, and one of the quirks I have come across is
> >>>> that the mpegts format reader is searching across WAY too many
> >>>> packets (MAX_SCAN_PACKETS) for a dvb specific service description
> >>>> table. This table is not required in the mpeg ts format, and is
> >>>> wrecking havock on my application when trying to tune a radio
> >>>> service without this service table. As a temporary workaround I've
> >>>> disabled the scan for sdt in mpegts_read_header. Without this
> >>>> workaround, the live stream that is to be decoded is delayed
> >>>> anywhere from 5-10 seconds before packets starts to arrive for
> >>>> decoding..
> >>>
> >>> I have the same problem, i was decoding an mpeg2 ts encoded with
> >>> AVS at 200kbs and it never got played until i removed the
> >>> handle_packets call. Don't know if there is a better way of
> >>> resolving the problem or not.
> >>
> >> If nobody objects soon I'll just go ahead and remove the SDT parsing,
> >> or at least make the search a bit less annoying.
> >
> > I suggest that you keep the SDT parsing but that you look for it only
> > in the first N bytes of the stream (where N is for example 4KB).
>
> A couple of DVB samples I checked repeat the SDT every 2 seconds.  If
> we want to be sure to catch it, it will be necessary to keep looking
> for a few seconds.  If the stream is in fact not DVB, this will impose
> an annoying delay.  Limiting the search by size is not ideal, either,
> the better solution being a time-limited search, as determined by PCR
> values.  This is of course more complex.

and independant of that, why not make it a little more flexible and let the 
user override whatever the default will be if she wishes ...

-- 
Michael