Cannot only get audio

[linsyking]

In the sample code, if I remove getvideo, then it will stuck at some point. Is getting audio depending on the video stream?

[icculus]

Currently, yes, but it would be trivial to throw away the video internally as an option.

I'll look into adding that.

In the meantime, you can just get the video and free it right away.

[linsyking]

What is the mechanism behind this?

I found that the video frames and audio packets will come in a strange pattern: 10 video frames and 10 audio packets, and repeat.

So what is the right way to receive them?

[icculus]

They are interleaved in the file. The right way is to check for both, deal with them when they arrive, and free them when done. Once it's ahead by too many video frames that haven't been accepted by the app, it stops decoding until the app catches up.

The test directory has examples. testtheoraplay.c just chews through a file as fast as possible, simplesdl.c is a simple media player.