[vlc-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] decoder: restart module if fmt_in changes

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le 2015-09-07 16:49, Thomas Guillem a écrit :
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015, at 15:36, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
>> Le 2015-09-07 16:30, Thomas Guillem a écrit :
>> > Then, should we add a b_packetized variable in decoder_t to inform
>> > the
>> > decoder module if data will be packetized ? That way, some 
>> decoders
>> > will
>> > able to fail at init if they are known to work only with 
>> packetized
>> > data.
>>
>> How do you decide when to use a packetizer then though?
>
> If we decide to phase out b_need_packetizer, then we always try to
> create a packetizer before the decoder. So, b_packetized will always 
> be
> true except for the case where no packetizer could be created (if a
> module is missing for example).

For better or worse, the "copy" packetizer is always available (unless 
the build is broken), though it does not actually perform packetization 
(it only fixes the length field).

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