[vlc-devel] [PATCH 3/4] avformat mux: Mark keyframe blocks as such.

Luca Barbato lu_zero at gentoo.org
Sun Aug 18 18:37:58 CEST 2013


On 15/08/13 00:12, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> Some browsers, such as Firefox, are very picky about WebM streams needing to
> start with a keyframe. To be able to handle this correctly when streaming,
> the avformat mux needs to mark keyframe-containing blocks (or clusters, in
> Matroska terminology) as such even after they have been muxed. The next patch
> in the series will make httpd actually care about this flag.
> 

I'd advise you to keep around a fake keyframe and interpose it before
serving the real content.

lu



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