[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 04:02:04PM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On 5/30/2009 3:51 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Yes, that should come soon, when the CODEC_ID_PROBE code is fixed ;)
> 
> > I think you have not even mentioned what problem you have with the
> > existing API that you choose such a implementation
> 
> Identifying streams in TS might be tricky, however having codec_tag set
> to registration descriptor can help, this should come soon too.

i am in favor of setting codec_tag

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