[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Moving edit list handling out of demuxers

[Gyan Doshi]

On 2025-06-13 04:25 pm, Tomas Härdin wrote:
> The present level of
> edit list support could be reimplemented by just fiddling with the -ss
> and -t options. That is, the ffmpeg CLI could automatically derive -ss
> and -t from the edit list extracted by lavf.

In mov.c, edit lists are per-track and can compose their edited tracks 
differently. So if the stream index/tables are to be no longer 
reconstituted within mov,c, -ss and -t may not return synchronized 
packets (as per the intended elst) from all streams.

Regards,
Gyan