libavformat – Tarik Billa

Reading a file located in memory with libavformat

December 1, 2023 by Tarik

It’s funny how I always find the solution by myself right after I post the question on this site, even though I’ve been working on this problem for hours. In fact you have to initialize avFormatContext->pb before calling av_open_input, and pass to it a fake filename. This is not written in the documentation but in … Read more

Raw H264 frames in mpegts container using libavcodec

September 14, 2023 by Tarik

I believe if you set the following, you will see video playback. packet.flags |= AV_PKT_FLAG_KEY; packet.pts = packet.dts = 0; You should really set packet.flags according to the h264 packet headers. You might try this fellow stack overflowian’s suggestion for extracting directly from the stream. If you are also adding audio, then pts/dts is going … Read more