Implement av_find_best_stream.

Originally committed as revision 26104 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/libavformat/avformat.h b/libavformat/avformat.h
index f166c090db..c6f282710c 100644
--- a/libavformat/avformat.h
+++ b/libavformat/avformat.h
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 #define AVFORMAT_AVFORMAT_H
 
 #define LIBAVFORMAT_VERSION_MAJOR 52
-#define LIBAVFORMAT_VERSION_MINOR 90
+#define LIBAVFORMAT_VERSION_MINOR 91
 #define LIBAVFORMAT_VERSION_MICRO  0
 
 #define LIBAVFORMAT_VERSION_INT AV_VERSION_INT(LIBAVFORMAT_VERSION_MAJOR, \
@@ -1141,6 +1141,37 @@ AVFormatContext *avformat_alloc_context(void);
 int av_find_stream_info(AVFormatContext *ic);
 
 /**
+ * Find the "best" stream in the file.
+ * The best stream is determined according to various heuristics as the most
+ * likely to be what the user expects.
+ * If the decoder parameter is non-NULL, av_find_best_stream will find the
+ * default decoder for the stream's codec; streams for which no decoder can
+ * be found are ignored.
+ *
+ * @param ic                media file handle
+ * @param type              stream type: video, audio, subtitles, etc.
+ * @param wanted_stream_nb  user-requested stream number,
+ *                          or -1 for automatic selection
+ * @param related_stream    try to find a stream related (eg. in the same
+ *                          program) to this one, or -1 if none
+ * @param decoder_ret       if non-NULL, returns the decoder for the
+ *                          selected stream
+ * @param flags             flags; none are currently defined
+ * @return  the non-negative stream number in case of success,
+ *          AVERROR_STREAM_NOT_FOUND if no stream with the requested type
+ *          could be found,
+ *          AVERROR_DECODER_NOT_FOUND if streams were found but no decoder
+ * @note  If av_find_best_stream returns successfully and decoder_ret is not
+ *        NULL, then *decoder_ret is guaranteed to be set to a valid AVCodec.
+ */
+int av_find_best_stream(AVFormatContext *ic,
+                        enum AVMediaType type,
+                        int wanted_stream_nb,
+                        int related_stream,
+                        AVCodec **decoder_ret,
+                        int flags);
+
+/**
  * Read a transport packet from a media file.
  *
  * This function is obsolete and should never be used.