Hi,

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Anton Khirnov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Guessing from bitrate will provide adequate results in most cases.
> ---
> We have this ugly thing in utils.c cargoculted from 2003 that tries to
> seek before the end for mpeg and mpegts and guesses the duration from
> the packets it finds there.
>
> I think this kind of format-specific hacks isn't justified, so we should
> get rid of it. Alternatively we could try to make this more generic or
> move the code to mpeg/mpegts demuxers.
>
> Opinions?

Please don't "just" remove, bitrate (VBR) is often not sufficient.

Moving this into format-specific code is a great idea, e.g. using a
"get_duration" callback, just like we have a get_pts() callback
already.

Ronald
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