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

[Kenneth Aafløy]

Hi,

torsdag 9. juni 2005, 13:45, skrev Michael Niedermayer:
> On Thursday 09 June 2005 12:49, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
> > >> 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 ...
> >
> > Any suggestion on how this should be passed to the demuxer?
>
> without looking at the code, id say AVFormatContext or AVFormatParameters,
> it depends upon where the variable is needed, and yes iam not happy with
> how parameters are passed into the demuxers at all

Currently the pat/pmt/sdt filters are closed after the scan. Since the 
services in a ts stream could stop transmission at any time, especially when 
there are multiple services in a transport, wouldn't it be better to keep 
them open and detect if pids are added/removed? Then somehow pass this to the 
user by some generic callback interface? IIRC the mythtv devs added something 
like this, but I belive they didn't touch the pat/pmt/sdt filters..

Kenneth