Hi, I've fixed some issues with the "no carrier" patches I sent last week, and since they had no comments and I've split them into three patches I figured that it's simpler to mark the old ones as superseded and resend the patch set.
libavformat currently doesn't provide any mechanism for detecting when a substream is no longer present but the stream as a whole is otherwise OK. Your best guess is to check when you last got any frames on it, which tends to work for video and audio but not for substreams that sometimes spend a long amount of time without presenting anything, like subtitles. Why is this an issue? Formats like MPEG-TS and MSS in push/ingest mode have separate transports for each stream; audio, video, and subtitles come from separate sources. If one of these breaks you have a fairly big problem on your hands, but returning an error on av_read_frame would be a bad course of action -- it may just be that the broadcaster has switched to regional news or similar which lacks subtitles or only runs one audio track, and things will return to normal once it's over. Put shortly, the API user needs to know that something is potentially broken, but without preventing further processing of the stream. This set of patches is an attempt at addressing this. Regards, John Högberg _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
