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.
If we really want to support parameter changes, they need to be
signalled along with the AVPackets as parameter change side data,
not just changing the AVCodecContext parameters when a packet
is demuxed (since there may be other earlier packets yet undecoded).
Something similar was already done for the sample rate in 0883109b2,
but some parameters were left changeable.
This avoids having to recheck the channel count for validity for
each decoded frame in (ad)pcm decoders, unless the decoders
explicitly say that they accept parameter changes.
Reported-by: Mateusz "j00ru" Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind
CC: libav-stable@libav.org
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Also add missing trailing commas, break long codec_tag lines and
add spaces in codec_tag declarations.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Prefix the functions/tables brktimegm, pcm_read_seek,
dv_offset_reset, voc_get_packet, codec_movaudio_tags,
codec_movvideo_tags.
After this, lavf has no global symbols without the proper prefix.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
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>
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
patch by: Björn Axelsson, bjorn d axelsson a intinor d se
thread: [PATCH] Remove static ByteIOContexts, 06 nov 2007
Originally committed as revision 11071 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
