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.
Otherwise the loop can take a lot of time if num_descr is very large.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Cadhalpun <Andreas.Cadhalpun@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
If regularly parsing new chan atoms (as in rtpdec_qt), but the
chan atoms don't actually contain any channel layout, don't reset
the value that the caller has filled in (by guessing).
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
This fixes crashes when called from rtpdec_qt, where
AVFormatContext->pb is null, a crash present since 3bab7cd128.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
This implements reading the tag in the demuxer and adds support for writing it
in the muxer. Some example channel layout tables for muxing are included for
ac3, aac, and alac, but they are not utilized yet.
