[Ffmpeg-devel] Reading blockless bitstream

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 09:56:51PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com> writes:
> 
> > Is there some trick that can be used to read an arbitrarily long
> > bitstream with no division into blocks when it is supplied as a
> > sequence of buffers?  Copying and merging all buffers is not an option
> > as the length is unbounded.  What I'm looking for is some way to
> > seamlessly shift a GetBitsContext from one buffer to another.  If
> > anyone has done something like that, I'd appreciate if you'd share any
> > hints.
> 
> Please, can someone at least say it's impossible?

its possible if i understand you correctly our mp3 decoder does something
similar with the bitresavoir though the implementation was written for
speed not beauty, als note mp3 needs end checks anyway so theres no extra
cost for checking ...

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