gstreamer/gst/isomp4/gstqtmux-doc.c

/* Quicktime muxer documentation
 * Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Thiago Santos <thiagoss@embedded.ufcg.edu.br>
 * Copyright (C) 2008 Mark Nauwelaerts <mnauw@users.sf.net>
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/* ============================= qtmux ==================================== */

/**
 * SECTION:element-qtmux
 * @title: qtmux
 * @short_description: Muxer for quicktime(.mov) files
 *
 * This element merges streams (audio and video) into QuickTime(.mov) files.
 *
 * The following background intends to explain why various similar muxers
 * are present in this plugin.
 *
 * The [QuickTime file format specification](http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/qtfileformat.pdf)
 * served as basis for the MP4 file format specification (mp4mux), and as such
 * the QuickTime file structure is nearly identical to the so-called ISO Base
 * Media file format defined in ISO 14496-12 (except for some media specific
 * parts).
 *
 * In turn, the latter ISO Base Media format was further specialized as a
 * Motion JPEG-2000 file format in ISO 15444-3 (mj2mux)
 * and in various 3GPP(2) specs (gppmux).
 * The fragmented file features defined (only) in ISO Base Media are used by
 * ISMV files making up (a.o.) Smooth Streaming (ismlmux).
 *
 * A few properties (#GstBaseQTMux:movie-timescale, #GstBaseQTMux:trak-timescale,
 * #GstQTMuxPad:trak-timescale) allow adjusting some technical parameters,
 * which might be useful in (rare) cases to resolve compatibility issues in
 * some situations.
 *
 * Some other properties influence the result more fundamentally.
 * A typical mov/mp4 file's metadata (aka moov) is located at the end of the
 * file, somewhat contrary to this usually being called "the header".
 * However, a #GstBaseQTMux:faststart file will (with some effort) arrange this to
 * be located near start of the file, which then allows it e.g. to be played
 * while downloading. Alternatively, rather than having one chunk of metadata at
 * start (or end), there can be some metadata at start and most of the other
 * data can be spread out into fragments of #GstBaseQTMux:fragment-duration.
 * If such fragmented layout is intended for streaming purposes, then
 * #GstQTMux:streamable allows foregoing to add index metadata (at the end of
 * file).
 *
 * When the maximum duration to be recorded can be known in advance, #GstQTMux
 * also supports a 'Robust Muxing' mode. In robust muxing mode,  space for the
 * headers are reserved at the start of muxing, and rewritten at a configurable
 * interval, so that the output file is always playable, even if the recording
 * is interrupted uncleanly by a crash. Robust muxing mode requires a seekable
 * output, such as filesink, because it needs to rewrite the start of the file.
 *
 * To enable robust muxing mode, set the #GstBaseQTMux:reserved-moov-update-period
 * and #GstBaseQTMux:reserved-max-duration property. Also present is the
 * #GstBaseQTMux:reserved-bytes-per-sec property, which can be increased if
 * for some reason the default is not large enough and the initial reserved
 * space for headers is too small. Applications can monitor the
 * #GstBaseQTMux:reserved-duration-remaining property to see how close to full
 * the reserved space is becoming.
 *
 * Applications that wish to be able to use/edit a file while it is being
 * written to by live content, can use the "Robust Prefill Muxing" mode. That
 * mode is a variant of the "Robust Muxing" mode in that it will pre-allocate a
 * completely valid header from the start for all tracks (i.e. it appears as
 * though the file is "reserved-max-duration" long with all samples
 * present). This mode can be enabled by setting the
 * #GstBaseQTMux:reserved-moov-update-period and #GstBaseQTMux:reserved-prefill
 * properties. Note that this mode is only possible with input streams that have
 * a fixed sample size (such as raw audio and Prores Video) and that don't
 * have reordered samples.
 *
 * ## Example pipelines
 * |[
 * gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src num-buffers=500 ! video/x-raw,width=320,height=240 ! videoconvert ! qtmux ! filesink location=video.mov
 * ]|
 * Records a video stream captured from a v4l2 device and muxes it into a qt file.
 *
 */

/* ============================= mp4mux ==================================== */

/**
 * SECTION:element-mp4mux
 * @title: mp4mux
 * @short_description: Muxer for ISO MPEG-4 (.mp4) files
 *
 * This element merges streams (audio and video) into ISO MPEG-4 (.mp4) files.
 *
 * The following background intends to explain why various similar muxers
 * are present in this plugin.
 *
 * The [QuickTime file format specification](http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/qtfileformat.pdf)
 * served as basis for the MP4 file format specification (mp4mux), and as such
 * the QuickTime file structure is nearly identical to the so-called ISO Base
 * Media file format defined in ISO 14496-12 (except for some media specific
 * parts).
 *
 * In turn, the latter ISO Base Media format was further specialized as a
 * Motion JPEG-2000 file format in ISO 15444-3 (mj2mux)
 * and in various 3GPP(2) specs (3gppmux).
 * The fragmented file features defined (only) in ISO Base Media are used by
 * ISMV files making up (a.o.) Smooth Streaming (ismlmux).
 *
 * A few properties (#GstBaseQTMux:movie-timescale, #GstBaseQTMux:trak-timescale)
 * allow adjusting some technical parameters, which might be useful in (rare)
 * cases to resolve compatibility issues in some situations.
 *
 * Some other properties influence the result more fundamentally.
 * A typical mov/mp4 file's metadata (aka moov) is located at the end of the
 * file, somewhat contrary to this usually being called "the header".
 * However, a #GstBaseQTMux:faststart file will (with some effort) arrange this to
 * be located near start of the file, which then allows it e.g. to be played
 * while downloading. Alternatively, rather than having one chunk of metadata at
 * start (or end), there can be some metadata at start and most of the other
 * data can be spread out into fragments of #GstBaseQTMux:fragment-duration.
 * If such fragmented layout is intended for streaming purposes, then
 * #GstMP4Mux:streamable allows foregoing to add index metadata (at the end of
 * file).
 *
 * ## Example pipelines
 * |[
 * gst-launch-1.0 gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src num-buffers=50 ! queue ! x264enc ! mp4mux ! filesink location=video.mp4
 * ]|
 * Records a video stream captured from a v4l2 device, encodes it into H.264
 * and muxes it into an mp4 file.
 *
 */

/* ============================= 3gppmux ==================================== */

/**
 * SECTION:element-3gppmux
 * @title: 3gppmux
 * @short_description: Muxer for 3GPP (.3gp) files
 *
 * This element merges streams (audio and video) into 3GPP (.3gp) files.
 *
 * The following background intends to explain why various similar muxers
 * are present in this plugin.
 *
 * The [QuickTime file format specification](http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/qtfileformat.pdf)
 * served as basis for the MP4 file format specification (mp4mux), and as such
 * the QuickTime file structure is nearly identical to the so-called ISO Base
 * Media file format defined in ISO 14496-12 (except for some media specific
 * parts).
 *
 * In turn, the latter ISO Base Media format was further specialized as a
 * Motion JPEG-2000 file format in ISO 15444-3 (mj2mux)
 * and in various 3GPP(2) specs (3gppmux).
 * The fragmented file features defined (only) in ISO Base Media are used by
 * ISMV files making up (a.o.) Smooth Streaming (ismlmux).
 *
 * A few properties (#GstBaseQTMux:movie-timescale, #GstBaseQTMux:trak-timescale)
 * allow adjusting some technical parameters, which might be useful in (rare)
 * cases to resolve compatibility issues in some situations.
 *
 * Some other properties influence the result more fundamentally.
 * A typical mov/mp4 file's metadata (aka moov) is located at the end of the file,
 * somewhat contrary to this usually being called "the header". However, a
 * #GstBaseQTMux:faststart file will (with some effort) arrange this to be located
 * near start of the file, which then allows it e.g. to be played while
 * downloading. Alternatively, rather than having one chunk of metadata at start
 * (or end), there can be some metadata at start and most of the other data can
 * be spread out into fragments of #GstBaseQTMux:fragment-duration. If such
 * fragmented layout is intended for streaming purposes, then
 * #Gst3GPPMux:streamable allows foregoing to add index metadata (at the end of
 * file).
 *
 * ## Example pipelines
 * |[
 * gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src num-buffers=50 ! queue ! ffenc_h263 ! 3gppmux ! filesink location=video.3gp
 * ]|
 * Records a video stream captured from a v4l2 device, encodes it into H.263
 * and muxes it into an 3gp file.
 *
 * Documentation last reviewed on 2011-04-21
 */

/* ============================= mj2pmux ==================================== */

/**
 * SECTION:element-mj2mux
 * @title: mj2mux
 * @short_description: Muxer for Motion JPEG-2000 (.mj2) files
 *
 * This element merges streams (audio and video) into MJ2 (.mj2) files.
 *
 * The following background intends to explain why various similar muxers
 * are present in this plugin.
 *
 * The [QuickTime file format specification](http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/qtfileformat.pdf)
 * served as basis for the MP4 file format specification (mp4mux), and as such
 * the QuickTime file structure is nearly identical to the so-called ISO Base
 * Media file format defined in ISO 14496-12 (except for some media specific
 * parts).
 *
 * In turn, the latter ISO Base Media format was further specialized as a
 * Motion JPEG-2000 file format in ISO 15444-3 (mj2mux)
 * and in various 3GPP(2) specs (3gppmux).
 * The fragmented file features defined (only) in ISO Base Media are used by
 * ISMV files making up (a.o.) Smooth Streaming (ismlmux).
 *
 * A few properties (#GstBaseQTMux:movie-timescale, #GstBaseQTMux:trak-timescale)
 * allow adjusting some technical parameters, which might be useful in (rare)
 * cases to resolve compatibility issues in some situations.
 *
 * Some other properties influence the result more fundamentally.
 * A typical mov/mp4 file's metadata (aka moov) is located at the end of the file,
 * somewhat contrary to this usually being called "the header". However, a
 * #GstBaseQTMux:faststart file will (with some effort) arrange this to be located
 * near start of the file, which then allows it e.g. to be played while
 * downloading. Alternatively, rather than having one chunk of metadata at start
 * (or end), there can be some metadata at start and most of the other data can
 * be spread out into fragments of #GstBaseQTMux:fragment-duration. If such
 * fragmented layout is intended for streaming purposes, then
 * #GstMJ2Mux:streamable allows foregoing to add index metadata (at the end of
 * file).
 *
 * ## Example pipelines
 * |[
 * gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src num-buffers=50 ! queue ! jp2kenc ! mj2mux ! filesink location=video.mj2
 * ]|
 * Records a video stream captured from a v4l2 device, encodes it into JPEG-2000
 * and muxes it into an mj2 file.
 *
 * Documentation last reviewed on 2011-04-21
 */

/* ============================= ismlmux ==================================== */

/**
 * SECTION:element-ismlmux
 * @title: ismlmux
 * @short_description: Muxer for ISML smooth streaming (.isml) files
 *
 * This element merges streams (audio and video) into MJ2 (.mj2) files.
 *
 * The following background intends to explain why various similar muxers
 * are present in this plugin.
 *
 * The [QuickTime file format specification](http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/qtfileformat.pdf)
 * served as basis for the MP4 file format specification (mp4mux), and as such
 * the QuickTime file structure is nearly identical to the so-called ISO Base
 * Media file format defined in ISO 14496-12 (except for some media specific
 * parts).
 *
 * In turn, the latter ISO Base Media format was further specialized as a
 * Motion JPEG-2000 file format in ISO 15444-3 (mj2mux)
 * and in various 3GPP(2) specs (3gppmux).
 * The fragmented file features defined (only) in ISO Base Media are used by
 * ISMV files making up (a.o.) Smooth Streaming (ismlmux).
 *
 * A few properties (#GstBaseQTMux:movie-timescale, #GstBaseQTMux:trak-timescale)
 * allow adjusting some technical parameters, which might be useful in (rare)
 * cases to resolve compatibility issues in some situations.
 *
 * Some other properties influence the result more fundamentally.
 * A typical mov/mp4 file's metadata (aka moov) is located at the end of the file,
 * somewhat contrary to this usually being called "the header". However, a
 * #GstBaseQTMux:faststart file will (with some effort) arrange this to be located
 * near start of the file, which then allows it e.g. to be played while
 * downloading. Alternatively, rather than having one chunk of metadata at start
 * (or end), there can be some metadata at start and most of the other data can
 * be spread out into fragments of #GstBaseQTMux:fragment-duration. If such
 * fragmented layout is intended for streaming purposes, then
 * #GstISMLMux:streamable allows foregoing to add index metadata (at the end of
 * file).
 *
 * ## Example pipelines
 * |[
 * gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src num-buffers=50 ! queue ! jp2kenc ! mj2mux ! filesink location=video.mj2
 * ]|
 * Records a video stream captured from a v4l2 device, encodes it into JPEG-2000
 * and muxes it into an mj2 file.
 *
 * Documentation last reviewed on 2011-04-21
 */