[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH][RFC][WIP] lavf/ramdec: RAM demuxer

[Ganesh Ajjanagadde]

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 1:05 PM, wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 21:59:21 +0100
> Hendrik Leppkes <h.leppkes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Ganesh Ajjanagadde
>> <gajjanagadde at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > This is a WIP patch for the RAM playlist format:
>> > http://service.real.com/help/library/guides/realone/IntroGuide/HTML/htmfiles/ramfile.htm,
>> > http://service.real.com/help/library/guides/realone/IntroGuide/HTML/htmfiles/ramsum.htm.
>> >
>> > The implementation is currently essentially a kitchen sink dump of
>> > concatdec; hence the copyright notice is preserved.
>> >
>> > Metadata stuff is currently lacking. Feedback appreciated; this is my
>> > first demuxer.
>> >
>> > Done some very simple, basic testing.
>> >
>>
>> Playlists "intentionally" don't have demuxers, as they should probably
>> be handled in a more generic top-level way. As you said, this is
>> basically concatdec with parsing, which every playlist demuxer would
>> likely end up being.
>> Unfortunately, noone has yet finished any such API to handle this
>> properly, hence no playlist support in FFmpeg yet.
>
> Cancatenating all playlist entries? That seems very strange.

Am curious: isn't that what playlists are generally speaking?

>
> I remember a branch in Libav which attempted to export playlists via
> API, but work on it has stopped.
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