[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] another stab at improved dv probe

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 06:34:06PM +0300, Maksym Veremeyenko wrote:
> Reimar D?ffinger ???????(??):
> >Hello,
> >another attempt at dv probe. It is still on the simple side, checking
> >that the distance between the section header difs is exactly 12000 bytes
> >or also checking the video header difs etc. is possible, but currently I
> >am still going for "as stupid as I can get away with".
> [...]
> Why do not check for DIF sequence integrity instead of some _magic bytes_?

Uh, those "magic bytes" are the DIF header, so what you propose would include
this check and just add more code. I don't mind someone doing it, but I won't
add extra code if I don't have to.

> Where are at least 10 DIF sequences for ONE frame...

Which is basically what my patch checks, though it does not care about order,
distance etc.