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

[Luca Barbato]

On 18/08/13 18:58, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 06:53:34PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
>> - flying pig syndrome (aka make what the specification explicitly
>> forbids just because you can)
>>
>> Since I do like making pigs fly I'll help out the best I can, but is
>> good to be aware about it =) (and pester the browser people to relax the
>> specification and/or have something less crazy than webrtc for plain
>> real-time one-directional streaming).
> 
> What exactly does the specification forbid? Streaming WebM? (If so, is live
> HTML5 video in desktop browsers allowed at all?)

It is not beside webrtc.

WebM and the <video> tag were supposed to be only for static content.

>> Patch on libav-devel about it coming soon.

Actually more than one:

- one to refactor the current ugly code.
- one to let you override the size and time limit to any value you want.

As is the normal behaviour is to close the cluster once you get a new
video keyframe already.

lu