Currently, AVStream contains an embedded AVCodecContext instance, which
is used by demuxers to export stream parameters to the caller and by
muxers to receive stream parameters from the caller. It is also used
internally as the codec context that is passed to parsers.
In addition, it is also widely used by the callers as the decoding (when
demuxer) or encoding (when muxing) context, though this has been
officially discouraged since Libav 11.
There are multiple important problems with this approach:
- the fields in AVCodecContext are in general one of
* stream parameters
* codec options
* codec state
However, it's not clear which ones are which. It is consequently
unclear which fields are a demuxer allowed to set or a muxer allowed to
read. This leads to erratic behaviour depending on whether decoding or
encoding is being performed or not (and whether it uses the AVStream
embedded codec context).
- various synchronization issues arising from the fact that the same
context is used by several different APIs (muxers/demuxers,
parsers, bitstream filters and encoders/decoders) simultaneously, with
there being no clear rules for who can modify what and the different
processes being typically delayed with respect to each other.
- avformat_find_stream_info() making it necessary to support opening
and closing a single codec context multiple times, thus
complicating the semantics of freeing various allocated objects in the
codec context.
Those problems are resolved by replacing the AVStream embedded codec
context with a newly added AVCodecParameters instance, which stores only
the stream parameters exported by the demuxers or read by the muxers.
It is found in some 8svx files (e.g. ones created by SoX).
Currently the decoder reuses the 8svx functions because we already have
handling of a single large planar packet for the compressed 8svx codecs.
Make the iff demuxer send the whole audio chunk to the decoder as a
single packet and move stereo interleaving from the iff demuxer to the
decoder.
Based on a patch by Stefano Sabatini.
git.videolan.org/ffmpeg.git
commit e280a4da2a
In the name of consistency:
get_byte -> avio_r8
get_<type> -> avio_r<type>
get_buffer -> avio_read
get_partial_buffer will be made private later
get_strz is left out becase I want to change it later to return
something useful.
Signed-off-by: Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje@gmail.com>
The iff.h header only declared one function that is now static, the
libavformat/iff.c source file wasn't using it before. Drop the file
entirely.
Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>
handling of things such as masking/EHB/HAM for this type of data.
Patch by Sebastian Vater <cdgs basty googlemail com>.
Originally committed as revision 23112 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
fields of common media header chunks (these can have different sizes depending
on the type of IFF file you read), better handle odd sizes (like RIFF, every
field is padded to word) and handle headerchunks after the BODY chunk.
Patch by Sebastian Vater <cdgs.basty googlemail com>.
Originally committed as revision 22977 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
Passing an explicit filename to this command is only necessary if the
documentation in the @file block refers to a file different from the
one the block resides in.
Originally committed as revision 22921 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
Otherwise doxygen complains about ambiguous filenames when files exist
under the same name in different subdirectories.
Originally committed as revision 16912 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
bits_per_coded_sample but that cannot be done seperately.
Patch by Luca Abeni
Also reset the minor version and fix the forgotton change to libfaad.
Note: The API/ABI should not be considered stable yet, there still may
be a change done here or there if some developer has some cleanup ideas and
patches!
Originally committed as revision 15262 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
patch by Stefano Sabatini, stefano.sabatini-lala poste.it
along with some spelling/consistency fixes for the long names by me
Originally committed as revision 13649 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
Vittorio Giovara
Anton Khirnov
Diego Biurrun
Kostya Shishkov
Justin Ruggles
Mans Rullgard
Paul B Mahol
Diego Elio Pettenò
Peter Ross
Sebastian Vater
Jean-Daniel Dupas
Stefano Sabatini
Jai Menon
Luca Abeni