[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH/RFC] Update libx264.c to use new libx264 features (b_keyframe, DTS support)

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 06:14:19PM -0500, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
> This patch updates libx264.c to support a few new features:
> 
> 1) Keyframes are now signalled by x264_picture_t->b_keyframe.  This
> allows x264 to have non-IDR keyframes, such as in the new Periodic
> Intra Refresh feature (see http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=249).
> 
> 2) DTS are now set correctly using x264's native VFR handling system.
> 
> 3) Timebase is now set using x264's native VFR handling system.
> 

> Potential issues:
> 
> 1) FPS is the same as timebase.  Is this necessarily correct?

probably not


> Ideally, for ratecontrol purposes (x264 doesn't have VFR ratecontrol
> yet, but it's getting it soon), the FPS should be the average input
> fps, but that's probably not always possible.  Is there any value we
> should use instead of timebase?

hmm, we have AVStream.avg_frame_rate but a encoder has no access to
that currently


> 
> 2) x264's DTS values start at a negative value in the case of
> B-frames; x264 leaves it up to the muxer whether to pass through the
> negative values, fix them with an initial delay, fix them with DTS
> compression, or use an EDTS element or similar.  Will this work in
> ffmpeg, or will libx264.c have to munge the dts values somehow?

negative dts should work

no comment about the patch, iam not maintainer of it and my todo is too
long

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