[Ffmpeg-devel] Possible bug in reading PTS/DTS
Michel Bardiaux
mbardiaux
Mon Apr 23 12:20:17 CEST 2007
Luca Abeni wrote:
> Hi Michel,
>
> Michel Bardiaux wrote:
> [...]
>>> (If the problem really is in the user application, I can prepare and
>>> send a patch fixing ffmpeg.c and ffserver.c)
>>>
>>> Or maybe the problem is in my (mis)understanding of this issue?
>> I'm not sure the problem is in decoding. I find it rather strange that
>> the first frame, which is a keyframe, does not have PTS=DTS.
> I do not know... I see that for containers that store both PTS and DTS,
> ffmpeg generally generates
> DTS = PTS - frame period
> for video (I am not using B frames, to simplify the testing). Is this
> wrong? If yes, then I think there is something to fix in the encoding /
> muxing side.
I think so too. My reading of the spec is that in the absence of
B-frames, the DTS are not even necessary; I'm afraid there is something
very wrong in the MPEG muxer. But we have 3 different issues here: what
an 'idal' MPEG should contain as timestamps; how the demuxer should
react when encoutering the one unavoidable timestamp discontinity in an
otherwise 'ideal' MPEG; and how to react to all other anomalies.
>
> Anyway, even if DTS == PTS the problem will be only delayed (it will
> appear as soon as timestamp will cross the 33bit boundary).
Indeed. For me it will happen every day, because we do 24/7 TV captures
from TV, and we want 'real' timestamps, ie the UTC of the frame
converted (when MPEG1) to the 90KHz scale.
>
>> That said, given a file with timestamps crossing the 33-bits boundary, I
>> dont think the solution should be to reproduce internally the deficiency
>> of the container.
> Ok, I see your point. This is why I asked :)
> Just to see if I got you right: are you saying that user applications
> should not care about st->pts_wrap_bits?
No, that the user application should not *have to* care about it. But I
think that's what you meant.
> If this is the case, then the error is likely in libavformat/utils.c
>
> Let's see what Michael says...
Greetings,
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