[MPlayer-dev-eng] About H.264 4-byte start code

[Nico Sabbi]

On Monday 12 January 2009 11:00:07 Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:17:37AM +0800, Jetta wrote:
> > I apologize first if this issue is inappropriate in this
> > maillist. I want to use our own new H.264 decoder in MPlayer(in
> > libavcodec), now i have a problem.
> >    Our H264 decoding library assumes that H.264 stream's start
> > code is 4-byte 0x00000001, but in Mplayer, it seems to use 3-byte
> > pattern 0x000001 by calling the function "demux_pattern_3" when
> > read packet. So the input date given to H264 decoder will just
> > have 0x000001 start code. Can i just write a new function just
> > like "demux_pattern_4" in file "demuxer.c" to solve this problem?
>
> No, read the standard. Section 6.1 clearly says that the start code
> is a three-byte sequence, if your decoder does not accept that, it
> probably only works works with raw H.264 encoded as specified by
> Annex B. I'd expect a good H.264 decoder library to also support
> the frame-based format, but if it does not, you will have to
> convert the data, just adding the additional 0 is unlikely to work
> in the general case. The code in libavodec/h264_mp4toannexb_bsf.c
> should be similar to what you need to do (unless you are indeed
> only interesting in decoding a raw H.264 stream and don't care
> about mov/mp4).
>

are you sure?
I remember that some time ago you explained me that the 4 leading 0s
were actually the right format to use