[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavf/mov: Add support for edit list parsing.

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On Fri,  5 Aug 2016 17:18:39 -0700
Sasi Inguva <isasi-at-google.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:

> In YouTube we have long been receiving MOV files from users, which have non-trivial edit lists (Those edit lists which are not just used to offset video start from audio start) and multiple edit lists. Recently the uploads of such files has increased with the introduction of apps that allow video editing and upload like Vine etc. mov.c in ffmpeg does not have edit list parsing support i.e. the support for deciding what video/audio packets should be output with what timestamps, based on edit lists. For this reason, we had built a basic support for edit list parsing in our version of ffmpeg, which fixes the AVIndexEntries built by mov_build_index by looking at edit lists, and introduces new DISCARD flags in AVPacket and AVFrame to signal to the decoder to discard certain packets.
> 
> For a while our edit list support was broken, as in it didn't properly work for multiple edit lists and it had problems with edit-lists ending on B-frames. But we've fixed most of these issues in recent times, and we think that now it is in a good enough condition so that it can be submitted to HEAD. This will not only help the vast userbase of ffmepg, but will also help us with staying up-to-date with ffmpeg and also by adding the power of ffmpeg developer community to our MOV support. So here's a go at it.
> What is supported:
>  - multiple edit lists
>  - edit lists ending on B-frames
>  - zero segment duration edit lists
> 
> What is not supported:
>  - Changing the rate of playing with edit lists. We basically ignore MediaRate field of edit.
> 
> I have added fate tests too. Here is a no-sign-in required link to the test files https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bz6XfEJZ-9N3R3o3QXNHUGRqbms&usp=sharing.

This still makes demuxers output packets with _not_ strictly
monotonically increasing DTS timestamps. Please fix this - a demuxer
isn't supposed to do this, and it's completely broken.