AVPacket  doesn't correspond to NAL unit at all (  if I understand
your dilemma).
If you need to quickly write NAL parser, look  at the H264Bitstream
library at Sourceforge; You can find h264 stream parsing app with
example of how to use library there. Hope that helps...

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Sven Alisch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm sorry to be nerve-racking again with my bad english and my problem, but I
> want to start a new thread, because I know where my problem is, but I do not
> find a solution.
>
> First of all, i want to say, I want to update my cutting application with
> h.264-cut support. I must say, the ffmpeg-lib ist a really cool and good to
> use library and please don't get me wrong, I don't want to stress any
> libav-developer for implementing a special feature!
>
> My problem:
>
> The mpeg2-based features, I said it, are working fine. And now I was
> believing, that everything works automaticly with h.264 encrypted
> transportstreams. But no. They don't.
>
> The first thing, that irritates me is my following code:
>
> if (packet.flags & PKT_FLAG_KEY)
> {
> ...
> }
>
> After I read a single frame from a stream, I look, if it is a keyframe. This
> is working for mpeg2-files. But in an h.264 stream, is every single readed
> frame a key frame. And this is problematic. So my question is here, does this
> not work generally for h.264-streams?
>
> I thought ok and added for h.264-streams following if-clause.
>
> if (packet.data[i] == 0 && packet.data[i+1] == 0 && packet.data[i+2] == 0 &&
> packet.data[i+3] == 1 && packet.data[i+4] == 0x67)
> {
>          cout << "IDR - Frame: " << frames() << " bei " << i << endl;
>          avckey = true;
>          allowParsing = true;
>          ...
> }
>
> Now I see, it work better, but the decoder produces, if I want to extract a
> sequence, no pictures. The Decoder gave me no error messages, but every
> decoded picture has the same size. Really strange.
>
> So the next question is, does av_read_frame really read such a complete
> NAL-Packet or not?
>
> The last question is only for my own understanding. If I want to cut
> h.264-streams, then it is only possible to do that at IDR-Frames? Yes or no?
>
> Many thanks for any help!
>
> regards,
> Sven
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