[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] av_get_delay

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:17:52AM -0400, Mike Scheutzow wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 09:22:04AM -0400, Mike Scheutzow wrote:
>>> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>>>>> This doesnt seem to work very well for example when you have:
>>>>>> a slideshow with commentary, the delay from the video stream could
>>>>>> make quite big jumps an be constant between them. It might be
>>>>>> better to add the remaining duration of the currently displayed frame
>>>>>> in there or something
>>> This is a very different use case than the original proposal was 
>>> meant  to solve, which I understood as pre-skewing uncompressed 
>>> output samples  to improve lip sync.
>>
>> you seem to missunderstand this somehow.
>
> Well, it seems that you do not understand the problem that Nicolas is  
> trying to improve. Do you agree with these statements:

you replied to a comment i made that was about a poorly worded doxy
comment. Nicolas has already corrected the doxy and i just wanted to
point out that it appeared to me you misunderstood my comment as
something else.


>
> 1) We are talking about presentation (display to the user of audio and  
> video.)

y


>
> 2) There is a system delay between the call to snd_write_pcm() and when  
> the user actually hears that sound. Assume that this delay is constant,  
> +- half write size.

y


>
> 3) This is a (possibly different) system delay between the call to pass  
> video pixels to the video subsystem, and when the user can see that  
> frame of data. Assume this delay is constant, +- half frame.

y


>
> Nicolas wants to enable decoders to compensate for the two different  
> system delays. The magnitude of these values is typically in the range  
> 10 - 100 milliseconds.

it can be more but yes


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