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Add support for parsing audio streams (though should be easy to extend to video) via libavcodec. Parsing can be done at the demuxer stage (currently disabled) or at the decoder (ad_ffmpeg, enabled). Should allow using the libavcodec AAC, DTS, ... decoders independent of container format.
author reimar
date Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:28:01 +0000
parents 85f669a84e7a
children 0ad2da052b2e
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MPlayer's Dump Stream Formats
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Designed by Alex & Arpi

The file starts with a variable size header:
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32-bit	Stream format fourcc (MPVS or MPAS)
	MPVS = MPlayer Video Stream
	MPAS = MPlayer Audio Stream
8-bit	Demuxer type (AVI,MOV,ASF,REAL,...)
8-bit	Flags (marks  dumped headers)
	Values: 0x1:  WAVEFORMATEX
		0x2:  Audio extra codec data
		0x4:  BITMAPINFOHEADER
		0x8:  QT's ImageDesc
		0x16: indicates 32-bit chunk size before every data chunk
16-bit	Length of headers

There's strict rule in the follow-up of the codec-headers.
Depending on flags,

Data chunks:
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32-bit	Optional 32-bit chunk size
...	Data