Hi, On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Zsolt V <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am new in using libav and cannot find a solution to my problem. We have a > server program that can capture video from webcam and save the stream into > an flv file (on linux). This program was not written by us, we cannot modify > it. My task is to write a program that listens to a target directory, and if > new flv file appears, start processing it immediately. I use libavformat and > libavcodec to read from flv and decode frames. > > The problem is that I start reading the flv file before it is finished. When > av_read_frame reaches EOF, it will not continue any more, even if new data > arrive later. This is because av_find_stream_info reads the packets into a > buffer at the beginning (when the flv file is small), and when the end of > this buffer is reached, it is not updated, no new data are added to it. I > did not find the solution how to update the buffer, or how to treat the file > as an endless stream. > > The corresponding part of my code is attached.
Check AVFormatContext->pb->eof_reached, and set it to zero if it's 1 and you believe there's new data added. Ronald _______________________________________________ libav-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-api
