[vlc-devel] [PATCH 1/2] transcode: add support for flush operations

[Francois Cartegnie]

Le 15/02/2021 à 13:07, Thomas Guillem a écrit :

>>
>> As I've mentioned before, there's no concept of flushing in a sout
>> chain. Only individual defined flush control is possible: Decoders,
>> packetizers. A generic flush has no meaning. What do I do when it hits,
>> for example, muxers ?
> 
> Why is sout_MuxFlush implemented then ?

How valid is sout_MuxFlush ? That does not flush but just arbitrary 
empties input fifos.
Why would you flush instead of notifying random access ? Why would the 
removed blocks not belong to the stream ?

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Francois Cartegnie
VideoLAN - VLC Developer