Well, you can do this. Keep last N number of packets in a buffer, where N is guaranteed to contain keyframe packet. When you encounter new keyframe packet you can free the packets that are not needed anymore. When someone starts to record, you can mux from the last known key frame packet.
On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 11:10 AM Audric Ackermann <audric.ackerm...@gmail.com> wrote: > But if I want to avoid missing the first few frames which are not a key > frame, I have to reencode the data, so the first frame recorded is a key > frame, right? > > Le mer. 1 janv. 2020 à 20:49, Strahinja Radman <dr.stras...@gmail.com> a > écrit : > >> If you only want to copy the input, there is no need to transcode. You >> can simply duplicate the input packets, one packet goes to the decoder so >> it can be shown, the other >> goes to the muxer for the recorder when someone presses the record >> button. You can save to whatever format you want but input may not be >> playable from the start until >> it reaches the key frame. Deep packet copy can be achieved with the >> following code: >> >> AVPacket packet; >> av_init_packet(&packet); >> av_packet_ref(packet, src); >> av_packet_make_writable(&packet); >> >> You can based on the decoded frames, mark a key frame packet and start >> saving from there. >> >> On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 10:06 AM Audric Ackermann < >> audric.ackerm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Ok thank you. >>> As I do not control the input parameters I will go for the transcode >>> option. Is there an easy way to duplicate all required decoder parameters >>> to the encoder? >>> >>> Like doing this, but with all important params in one step: >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> outst->codec->width = this->codec_ctx->width; >>> outst->codec->height = this->codec_ctx->height; >>> outst->codec->pix_fmt = this->codec_ctx->pix_fmt; >>> outst->codec->time_base = this->codec_ctx->time_base; >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Libav-user mailing list >>> Libav-user@ffmpeg.org >>> https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-user >>> >>> To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email >>> libav-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Regards >> Strahinja Radman >> _______________________________________________ >> Libav-user mailing list >> Libav-user@ffmpeg.org >> https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-user >> >> To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email >> libav-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". > > _______________________________________________ > Libav-user mailing list > Libav-user@ffmpeg.org > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-user > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > libav-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". -- Regards Strahinja Radman
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