[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avformat/rawenc: check stream type

Michael Niedermayer michael at niedermayer.cc
Wed Apr 11 01:17:16 EEST 2018


On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 07:21:29PM +0530, Gyan Doshi wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4/10/2018 4:49 AM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> >To implement generic "codec supported" checks, muxers would have to
> >list what they support.
> >There are 3 ways i know how this can be done in the current API
> >1. the audio_codec / video_codec / ... fields
> >2. the codec_tag array (this was in fact IIRC one of the intended uses of it)
> >3. the querry_format callback
> 
> These are raw single stream muxers - most only dump packets and _should_
> accept exactly one codec_id. A couple may insert bitstream filters. Only one
> writes a trailer. So none of them have a codec_tag member or a query_codec
> callback. Personally, I agree that the current method is inelegant but these
> "muxers" are stable and these tests shouldn't need changes. But I can go the
> query_codec route if you advise it.

yes please do
note query_codec is only needed for the few special cases that do more than
one codec_id

thx

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