[FFmpeg-devel] How do I display I-frames only in H.264

[Waters, Ralph]

Hi All,

> I'm not sure of all the ffmpeg lists and how to properly use them, so
> if I am in the wrong area for this question, I would greatly
> appreciate being pointed to the right area, and thank you in advance.
> I was wondering if anyone has any clue on how to just display I-frames
> only for a H.264 stream. I have had an easy time of getting MPEG-4 to
> display I-frame only data by using the pCodexCtx->skip_frame =
> AVDISCARD_NONKEY And it works like a charm. For H.264 this variable
> doesn't seem to work, although I'm not sure why. My h.264 profile is
> baseline 3.1 and it contains only I and P frames.
> How can I throw the P-frames away, without taking the CPU time to
> decode them?
> 
> Thanks, Rusty Waters
> 

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