[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] simplify ipmovie pts calculation

[Mike Melanson]

Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> as mentioned here: http://multimedia.cx/eggs/baldur-in-bulk/ the ipmovie
> pts stuff is a bit of a mess.
> While fixing that will actually worsen the situation when encoding with
> bitrate without specifying a frame rate to x264 (since x264 will now not
> just assume 90000 fps but 1000000 fps), the previous code was needlessly
> complex.
> My change is untested though, and the cast to uint64_t when calculating
> frame_pts_inc is probably an unrelated change (actually I do not know
> for sure if not maybe the old code is correct, it did look odd though).

Thanks for taking an interest in this. I think perhaps a better solution 
would be to not initialize the video stream until encountering a create 
timer opcode in a video chunk. The timer opcode establishes the framerate.

The RoQ demuxer also needs to be revised similarly. I.e., don't 
initialize an audio or video stream until encountering a corresponding 
chunk while normally traversing the file. Currently, it takes the silly 
approach of scanning ahead for a 1/2 second or so to find an audio 
buffer in order to determine if it should initialize an audio stream 
before playing anything.

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     -Mike Melanson