While it is less featureful (and slower) than the built-in H264
decoder, one could potentially want to use it to take advantage
of the cisco patent license offer.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Currently it's exported as AVFrame.pkt_pts, which is also the only use
for that field. The reason it is done like this is that lavc used to
export various codec-specific "timing" information in AVFrame.pts, which
is not done anymore.
Since it is confusing to the callers to have a separate field which is
used only for decoder timestamps and nothing else, deprecate pkt_pts and
use just AVFrame.pts everywhere.
This allows callers with avio write callbacks to get the bytestream
positions that correspond to keyframes, suitable for live streaming.
In the simplest form, a caller could expect that a header is written
to the bytestream during the avformat_write_header, and the data
output to the avio context during e.g. av_write_frame corresponds
exactly to the current packet passed in.
When combined with av_interleaved_write_frame, and with muxers that
do buffering (most muxers that do some sort of fragmenting or
clustering), the mapping from input data to bytestream positions
is nontrivial.
This allows callers to get directly information about what part
of the bytestream is what, without having to resort to assumptions
about the muxer behaviour.
One keyframe/fragment/block can still be split into multiple (if
they are larger than the aviocontext buffer), which would call
the callback with e.g. AVIO_DATA_MARKER_SYNC_POINT, followed by
AVIO_DATA_MARKER_UNKNOWN for the second time it is called with
the following data.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Using this requires setting the rw_timeout option to make it
terminate, alternatively using the interrupt callback (if used via
the API).
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
If set non-zero, this limits duration of the retry_transfer_wrapper()
loop, thus affecting ffurl_read*(), ffurl_write(). As soon as
one single byte is successfully received/transmitted, the timer
restarts.
This has further changes by Michael Niedermayer and Martin Storsjö.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Until now, the decoding API was restricted to outputting 0 or 1 frames
per input packet. It also enforces a somewhat rigid dataflow in general.
This new API seeks to relax these restrictions by decoupling input and
output. Instead of doing a single call on each decode step, which may
consume the packet and may produce output, the new API requires the user
to send input first, and then ask for output.
For now, there are no codecs supporting this API. The API can work with
codecs using the old API, and most code added here is to make them
interoperate. The reverse is not possible, although for audio it might.
Signed-off-by: Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net>
This API is intended to allow passing around codec parameters without
using full AVCodecContext (which also contains codec options and
encoder/decoder state).
Some (de)muxers open additional files beyond the main IO context.
Currently, they call avio_open() directly, which prevents the caller
from using custom IO for such streams.
This commit adds callbacks to AVFormatContext that default to
avio_open2()/avio_close(), but can be overridden by the caller. All
muxers and demuxers using AVIO are switched to using those callbacks
instead of calling avio_open()/avio_close() directly.
(de)muxers that use the URLProtocol layer directly instead of AVIO
remain unconverted for now. This should be fixed in later commits.
