[FFmpeg-devel] About guess_correct_pts / AVFrame.best_effort_timestamp

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 06:48:06PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Martin Storsj? <martin at martin.st> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
[...]
> > 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.
> 
> This works under the assumption that the decoded picture buffer has a
> constant size.  If this is not true for some codec, using input DTS as
> output PTS will not work.  VP8 is an example of a codec where this is
> not true.

the use of dts can trivially be disabled for such codecs
its a matter of a CODEC_CAP_ flag being added to the 1 or 2 codecs that are
affected.


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