[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add support for private PES streams in mpegts and support for application decoding the stream

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:48:13PM +0300, Sebastian Cabot wrote:
> Well. It is up to you of course. This is just my contribution to the
> development of this great library.
> 
> I will try and explain.
> 
> First of all it makes another step in fully implementing the mpegts
> standard (How important this is I don't know),

I dont think the mpeg-ts standard suggests, even less so mandates
such hacks


> Second it allow users to handle the private streams without the need
> of manipulating the code of the library itself for every type of
> private stream they want to handle.

There are functions with which one can register AVCodecs ...
Also avformat surely can return all streams, even ones not identified
with a included codec

I think you have not even mentioned what problem you have with the
existing API that you choose such a implementation


> 
> I can also see further advantages to this mechanism - With little
> development it can even be used by users who want replace a default
> codec with their own implementation be it for debugging purposes or
> whatever without having to change the library too much (but It's not
> what I'm suggesting here).

I can not see an advantage in your mechanism over what exists, and
one can alraedy register ones own codec instead of the default one
if one really wanted. Also non Audio/Video/sub streams surely can
be exported in the current framework ...

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