[vlc-devel] Time Stamps for Async Data

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

   Hello,

On Wednesday 22 December 2010, Bill Dolson wrote:
> For the cases where this data is not already present in the mux I have
> written a slave demux to accept data packets from other sources (udp
> streams, serial ports, etc) and insert them into a ts mux.   What would
> be the best recommendation for synthesizing a PTS so that the packets
> would be muxed into the stream at their arrival time?  Are there any
> demuxers which handle a similar problem?

A *slave* demux instance can get the current timestamp from the 
DEMUX_SET_NEXT_TIME control request. It was not really meant to synthetize 
timestamps, but rather to synchronize multiple file format parsers. It should 
work though.

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