On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 19:32:37 +0200 Stefano Sabatini <stefa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On date Saturday 2016-09-24 15:21:11 +0200, wm4 encoded: > > On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 19:46:16 +0200 > > Stefano Sabatini <stefa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On date Friday 2016-09-23 09:34:19 +0200, wm4 encoded: > > > > On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 18:50:27 +0200 > > > > Stefano Sabatini <stefa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > [...] > > > > > Ping. I'd like to commit this if there are no objections. Also, > > > > > possibly add a muxer to generate output directly readable by the > > > > > demuxer (this way we don't need ffprobe for generating the output, and > > > > > we avoid the ordering issue). > > > > > > > > I'm sorry to jump in as a nay-sayer, but it looks like a quite fishy > > > > concept and I still don't get why it's supposed to be needed. The > > > > documentation also doesn't say what this is supposed to be useful for. > > > > > > > > > > I'll extend the documentation to add some possibly useful use cases. > > > > > > My use case: I need to build a data stream with scripting/manual > > > editing. Since I don't want to have to rely on a binary format (which > > > is not ideal for that use case) I needed a format simple enough to be > > > written and analysed without special tools, but with a simple text > > > editor. > > > > I still don't get it. Your description makes me think of something like > > EDL, but that doesn't seem to have anything to do with it. > > EDL as "Edit Decision List"? No I don't think this is related at > all. > > Suppose you want to inject a data stream, you have the data and you > know where to insert it given its PTS. With this muxer you can > handcraft a textual file in the ffprobe_default format and use ffmpeg > to inject the new data stream. What's a "data stream"? Inject into what? And why? _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
