[FFmpeg-devel] GoC 2008 and H264 SVC decoder

[Nico Sabbi]

On Monday 31 March 2008 10:44:23 Thorsten Jordan wrote:
> Nico Sabbi schrieb:
> > On Monday 31 March 2008 10:22:04 Thorsten Jordan wrote:
> >> Michael Niedermayer schrieb:
> >>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 04:44:44PM +0100, Thorsten Jordan wrote:
> >>>> Michael Niedermayer schrieb:
> >>>
> >>> .avi doesnt contain PTS, that is PTS=AV_NOPTS_VALUE _always_.
> >>> .mp4 _should_ contain valid PTS. I do not know if all files
> >>> actually do but ones which dont are broken AFIAK. We should try
> >>> to support broken files if possible but first we must support
> >>> valid files ...
> >>
> >> I agree. I suppose AVI is the only problematic container then?
> >> ogm, mkv, asf, mov etc. are all ok? good to know...
> >
> > ogm doesn't have PTS either, and ogg is a curse word as much as
> > mkv
>
> why that? because the format is badly defined?

because both formats are very bad, but for different reasons
explained countless times in this ML

>
> mkv files seem to have pts in presentation order...

whatever the pts frames should be stored in the file in decoding order
in any decent container, but mkv doesn't fall in the category

>
> I guess for libav-users it would be good to know which container
> formats don't have pts. ffplay implements that with the
> decoder_reorder_pts option, but it has to be set by the user.


IIRC formats that have both pts and dts are few: mpeg*,
nut, mkv, mov, maybe asf;  surely not avi and ogg. All other formats 
aren't worth considering for carrying H264