Hi. I was reading the documentation and it wasn’t clear what happens in the following case.
I’ve set up a network connection, and data is being delivered asynchronously to a buffer (a sort of elastic FIFO). I’ve set up avio_alloc_context() to read from that FIFO. I’ve done an avformat_open_input() on the context. So, here’s the question. I’m in a loop checking to see if the FIFO is empty or not. If it’s not empty, then I try to do an av_read_frame() on it. I don’t know if there will be enough data for a complete frame or not, just that there is *some* data in the FIFO. What happens when there isn’t enough data? What if data is trickling in and it’s going to take multiple calls to the read_packet function to get a complete frame/packet? It looks like it’s internally going to keep making multiple calls to the read_packet function until it’s acquired enough. Is that correct? And even if the FIFO could tell me how much data it holds, that wouldn’t do any good it seems, because I don’t think av_read_frame() knows how much data it needs until *after* it’s seen it. Also true? I ask because I never want to have av_read_frame() (or anything it calls) block. I have other stuff that needs to happen while enough data is being accumulated to process as a packet-full. How to accomplish this? Thanks, -Philip _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
