gstreamer/gst/asfdemux
Thiago Santos 556055e2f1 asfdemux: Only use segment.start as seek_time if it is relative
Relying on the gst_segment_do_seek results for getting the
seeking time should not be used if seek type is SET because the
do_seek function makes the 'cur` position of the seek normalized
on the segment range. This means that seeking beyond the end of the
file might not result in instant EOS as it will end up seeking to
the final ts of the file.

In asf seeking to the final timestamp can lead to seeking to the last
keyframe, meaning a few seconds of video will still be played, which should
not be the desired behavior when seeking beyong file limits.
2013-09-24 14:43:34 -07:00
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.gitignore gst/asfdemux/.cvsignore: More ignore 2006-06-12 13:27:18 +00:00
asf.vcproj more working plugins 2004-07-27 21:41:30 +00:00
asfheaders.c asfdemux: Add support for dvr-ms 2013-07-29 10:07:55 +02:00
asfheaders.h asfdemux: Add support for dvr-ms 2013-07-29 10:07:55 +02:00
asfpacket.c asfdemux: fix playback regression in push mode 2013-09-18 18:20:00 +02:00
asfpacket.h Fix FSF address 2012-11-03 20:40:37 +00:00
gstasf.c Fix FSF address 2012-11-03 20:40:37 +00:00
gstasfdemux.c asfdemux: Only use segment.start as seek_time if it is relative 2013-09-24 14:43:34 -07:00
gstasfdemux.h asfdemux: remove unused variable 2013-09-10 19:51:05 -03:00
gstrtpasfdepay.c Fix FSF address 2012-11-03 20:40:37 +00:00
gstrtpasfdepay.h Fix FSF address 2012-11-03 20:40:37 +00:00
gstrtspwms.c Fix FSF address 2012-11-03 20:40:37 +00:00
gstrtspwms.h Fix FSF address 2012-11-03 20:40:37 +00:00
Makefile.am gst: Add better support for static plugins 2013-04-15 15:56:02 +02:00
README ext/jpeg/gstjpegdec.c: Make jpegdec quiet on MJPEG decoding 2005-01-10 22:00:15 +00:00

ASF Demuxer Plugin
==================

Overview
--------

This plugin is a demuxer for Microsoft's ASF Advanced Streaming Format
or ASF [1]. This demuxer only supports ASF v1.0 since the vast
majority of existing ASF files use that version. The specification
has been derived from a third party source [2] without reference to
the original.

Design
------

The ASF format can carry any combination of audio, video or
'ASF_Command_Media' streams. For simplicity it is assumed that each
file can carry up to 16 audio streams and 16 video streams. These are
implemented as dynamic pads and appear as appropriate once the file
headers have been parsed.

    (-------------------------)
    ! asfdemux                !
    !                    (video/raw0)---
    !                    (video/raw1)---
    !                    (video/raw...
  --- src                     !
    !                    (audio/raw0)---
    !                    (audio/raw1)---
    !                    (audio/raw...
    !                         !
    (-------------------------)


Known stream fourccs are:

Type		Tags		MIME type
------------------------------------------
H263		H263 I263	video/x-h263
MJPEG		MJPG		image/jpeg	
MPEG4		DIVX divx DX50	video/mpeg
		XVID xvid mp4s	
		MP4S M4S2 m4s2
		0x04000000
MSMPEG4V1	MPG4		video/mpeg
MSMPEG4V2	MP42		video/mpeg
MSMPEG4V3	MP43 DIV3	video/mpeg
WMV1		WMV1		video/x-wmv, wmvversion = (int) 1
WMV2		WMV2		video/x-wmv, wmvversion = (int) 2
WMV3		WMV3		video/x-wmv, wmvversion = (int) 3
WMA1		WMA1		audio/x-wma, wmaversion = (int) 1
WMA2		WMA2		audio/x-wma, wmaversion = (int) 2
				audio/x-wma, wmaversion = (int) 3

These video stream headers is very similar to that used in the AVI
format as are the audio stream headers. In addition the content types
are basically the same also so, for compatibility with existing
plugins the src pads are set up as video/x-msvideo. This enables
compatibility with the ffmpeg plugin.

The demuxing process begins with the loop function gst_asf_demux_loop
and parses the file in a recursive tree as follows:

	gst_asf_demux_loop()
	+-> gst_asf_demux_process_object()   <----
	    +-> gst_asf_demux_process_stream()    \
	    |-> gst_asf_demux_process_file()      |
	    |-> gst_asf_demux_process_header()  --+
	    |-> gst_asf_demux_process_data()
		+-> gst_asf_demux_process_segment()
		    +-> gst_asf_demux_process_chunk()

Todo
----

- Support for ASF v2.0
- Support for command media streams



References
----------

[1] Microsoft. ASF Specification - Windows Media Technologies. 
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/format/asfspec.aspx (v01.20.01e, September 2003)

[2] divx at euro.ru. ASF format version 1.0,
reconstruction. http://avifile.sourceforge.net/asf-1.0.htm