[FFmpeg-devel] Patch for Trac ticket #2579

[Matt Leotta]

I apologize for the delayed response.  I was just notified that there was a
response to my e-mail, but I was not subscribed to ffmpeg-devel and did not
receive it.  I am now subscribed.

From: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni <at> gmx.at>
Subject: Re: Patch for Trac ticket #2579
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel
Date: 2013-05-18 00:14:14 GMT (2 weeks, 3 days, 20 hours and 29 minutes ago)

> why does turning unknown streams into data make a difference ?

Well, maybe it technically doesn't make a difference.  I'm not an expert
with the ffmpeg API and I'm possibly not understanding correctly.  I
assumed that unknown streams were ignored or otherwise treated differently
than data streams.  If not, what is the difference between an unknown
stream and a data stream?

My current approach is to look for the first stream such that
(enc->codec_type == AVMEDIA_TYPE_DATA) and use that as my data stream.
 Maybe I should just use (enc->codec_type == AVMEDIA_TYPE_DATA ||
enc->codec_type == AVMEDIA_TYPE_UNKNOWN)?

It would seem to be a better solution to make the unknown stream type into
a known data stream type, but I'm not sure what that requires.

Thanks,
Matt