[Ffmpeg-devel] mpeg4 avi, corrupted frames when CODEC_FLAG_TRUNCATED is set

[Colin Ward]

Rich Felker wrote:
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>>  This issue seems like the AVFrame->pts issue in that it is a bit of a 
>>mystery to most people and aguably shouldn't be there anyway, as all 
>>containers and codecs should work in the same way, from the user's point 
>>of view.  ie.  It shouldn't matter if the codec is handling packet 
>>boundaries or how it is calculating the pts.  It should "just work."
> 
> Then we'd have slow unusable bloated crap. For some broken formats
> (like avi with B frames), obtaining pts is an UNBOUNDED operation. It
> requires arbitrary demuxing into the future by max_b_frames (which
> isn't known by the demuxer) and parsing of the codec-specific data to
> determine which frames are I/P and which are B. How do you propose we
> handle this? IIRC there was a flag to force the demuxer to always do
> whatever is necessary to fully determine pts, but you have to manually
> set it since it significantly increases overhead of demuxing..

   Regardless of what work the codec and/or container code has to do, if 
it isn't setting the pts of each frame that it decodes then it isn't 
doing its job properly!  And if the codec and/or container code doesn't 
set the pts properly then each and every programmer who writes a program 
based on FFMPEG is going to have to reinvent the wheel and calculate the 
pts himself, which isn't easy.

   Unless I have misunderstood what you have said?

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