Re: [Cellar] AV1 mapping Matroska

[Michael Niedermayer <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 01:14:02PM +0200, Jerome Martinez wrote:
> On 02/07/2018 12:51, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> >2018-07-02 12:34 GMT+02:00 Michael Niedermayer <[e-mail]>:
> >>Hi
> >>
> >>On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 09:47:45AM +0200, Moritz Bunkus wrote:
> >>>Hey,
> >>>
> >>>>Looking at the term "coded video sequence" (CVS) in other codecs (H.264
> >>>>and H.265) it seems it's a common term. And for those codec one Segment
> >>>>correspond to one CVS, with the parameters of that CVS stored in the
> >>>>CodecPrivate (SPS + PPS for H.264 for example). So we should probably go
> >>>>in that simple way.
> >>>I have quite a lot of h.264 samples here, mainly M2TS from DVB, where
> >>>SPS/PPS change mid-stream, often multiple times. For such files the first
> >>>occurrences of SPS/PPS make up the AvcC in CodecPrivate, but all key frames
> >>>are still prefixed with the currently active SPS/PPS — because that's the
> >>>only way to signal that stuff has actually changed.
> >>IMHO All SPS/PPS should be in the "global header" (CodecPrivate) which the
> >>global header applies to, not just the first.
> 
> Not possible with e.g. real time streaming (you don't know in advance the
> next SPS/PPS)

In cases where the SPS/PPS can change and it is not known when the global
header needs to be produced (that is for example real time streaming).
it follows that there should be no global header or it should not contain 
any SPS/PPS. But only things which are known for the whole stream.

I would argue this is kind of the definition of a global header.
It applies globally to the whole stream. 
Storing only one out of several PPS/SPS in the header 
(which was mentioned above) feels  rather incorrect to me. And any
software which makes decissions based on SPS data like resolution and
aspect ratio could benefit from knowing if it needs to scan the whole
stream for SPS changes or if it can trust the first or global header


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