[vlc-devel] Project: Video Barcodes for VLC

[Denis Charmet]

Le mardi 05 mars 2013 à 01:20:26, Sebastian Morr a écrit :
> Hey,
> 
> I'd like to share my progress regarding video barcodes with you.
> This is how it looks like right now: http://files.morr.cc/nemo-barcode.png
> 
> The barcode is generated each time a video file is opened. For a 7.5 GB
> 1080p file on an USB2.0-connected hard drive, with a 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo, that
> takes about a minute. For the screenshot's movie, it takes about 4 seconds.
> The already generated part is updated every second. There's still a lot of
> potential for speed optimizations.
> 
What if you are playing a continuous stream from your dvb tuner? What if
you cannot seek? You are still decoding the movie twice and it is likely
to hinder the normal playback.

VLC already struggles to decode many files on many computers without
having ffmpeg doing the same behind its back.

I agree with Rémi, right now, the most reliable and pragmatic approach is
to embed that as a metadata at muxing time (this will probably need a
new field definition though).

Regards,

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