Re: HLS, DASH, MPD and LMS future version

mherger wrote: 
> Ahhh.... another hot topic I personally was happy somebody else took 
> care of :-).
> 
> But as much as I tried to avoid it (lack of understanding and time to 
> learn to understand) I think this would indeed be a great addition.
> 
> Now... just to show how ignorant I was: today I looked into PlayHLS for
> 
> the first time. And I was surprised that it did NOT use ffmpeg. I always
> 
> thought that's what it did...
> 
> So my first question would be: would it make sense to use ffmpeg to 
> simplify the LMS side of things? It's a monster, and it might require a
> 
> lot of tweaking to make it a lean and clean addition. But would it 
> simplify things? With multi-core becoming the norm having a helper do 
> the heavy lifting instead of massaging it in to LMS might be a 
> reasonable approach?

Yes, that's a good question. My concern would be to make it work for all
the divers platforms, although it's true that ffmpeg is very much
multi-platform. My approach with mp4/aac was to make it fully internal
to LMS as you know, now I'm not sure it's scalable and more CPU
efficient. Between @bpa and myself, I think we have a lot of the
hls/dash/mpd/mpeg-ts and mp4/aac/adts unwrapping code but the approach
is absolutely up for debate.



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