[FFmpeg-devel] About guess_correct_pts / AVFrame.best_effort_timestamp

[Martin Storsjö]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:

> A VFR stream obviously needs timestamps.  I'm not aware of any
> VFR-capable container providing only DTS.  In fact, I'm not aware of
> _any_ container providing only DTS.  Even if such a container did exist,
> DTS is not PTS.  PTS can, of course be derived from DTS, decoder delay,
> and frame reordering, but that is not what any code in ffmpeg does, at
> least not correctly.

I'm not sure if any such formats exist though, I'm just trying to make 
sure my knowledge of the subject is right.

As far as I understand, DTS'es shouldn't be reordered? The definition I 
saw is that whatever comes out from an ideal, instanteous decoder, when 
fed with a packet at time DTS, should be displayed at that particular 
time.

The new AVFrame.pkt_dts should track this right, as far as I know. As in, 
it isn't reordered along with the PTS, but it is set to the DTS of the 
AVPacket that triggered this frame to be emitted.

So given this, I could either use AVFrame.pkt_pts, if set, or 
AVFrame.pkt_dts if that exists instead, and if that doesn't exist either, 
I'd have to revert to calculating it from the frame rate.

// Martin