Am So., 29. März 2020 um 16:45 Uhr schrieb Gautam Ramakrishnan <gautamr...@gmail.com>:
> > > What exactly does a parser do and how is it different from a decoder? > > > I am unable to understand the exact use case of a parser. > > > > Try the following: > > $ cat 1.jpg 2.jpg | ffmpeg -i -f null - > > (Is expected to decode two frames as can be seen in the console output, > > also works for example with png) > > > > $ cat 1.j2k 2.j2k | ffmpeg -i - -f null - > > Will only decode one frame because there is no parser to split the > > input. > > > So does it basically try to find the SOC marker and EOC markers and > split the streams into frames? Basically, yes. Look at existing parsers in libavcodec/*parser* (or git grep AVCodecParser), especially the jpeg parser. Carl Eugen _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
