On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 8:49 AM Leo Izen <leo.i...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2/21/23 20:42, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 5:36 PM Leo Izen <leo.i...@gmail.com > > <mailto:leo.i...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > These chunks are lightweight and it's useful information to have when > > running ffmpeg -i or ffprobe, for example. > > > > > > I disagree conceptually with this. If we want to skip "all" decoding, we > > should also skip metadata for said frames. > > > > I think what we're looking for here is a partial decoding stage, e.g. > > "header-only" or similar, instead of "including framedata", for some or > > all frames. That's orthogonal to AVDISCARD_*. > > > > Ronald > > The issue is that libavformat and ffmpeg.c obtain metadata by calling > the decoder with AVDISCARD_ALL. What you're proposing would require a > structural change elsewhere, and I'm not sure it makes sense to block a > patch like this one based on a hypothetical change elsewhere.
That’s fair. I’ll put this in the long term wishlist bucket. Ronald _______________________________________________ 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".
