What is the alignment capability in video/x-h264

[Tim Müller]

On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 04:17 -0800, pfarmer wrote:

Hi,

>       video/x-h264
>           stream-format: byte-stream
>               alignment: { nal, au }
> 
> I still do not know what is the difference of nal and au in the case of the
> byte-stream. Since in some cases I get corrupted video stream I need to know
> if I need to take these into account while debugging.
> 
> What means this alignment capability?

alignment=au means that each output buffer contains the NALs for a whole
picture. alignment=nal just means that each output buffer contains
complete NALs, but those do not need to represent a whole frame.

 Cheers
  -Tim

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