[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]Add an ignore_delay option to the gif demuxer

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Michael Niedermayer <michaelni <at> gmx.at> writes:

> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 05:54:49PM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > Michael Niedermayer <michaelni <at> gmx.at> writes:
> > 
> > > was this the intent of the creator of the sample file we have ?
> > > i mean that the frames display more then 10 minutes 
> > 
> > There is no indication that anything else was intended.
> > To the best of my knowledge, the file is not invalid 
> > (and there is no bug except that our mov muxer has 
> > deficiencies which are unrelated to gif).
> 
> if the goal is to transcode this file while 
> maintaining the huge frame delay then "-vsync 
> vfr" could be used

Sure but this is unrelated to the patch afaict.

> otoh if you really want to limit the max delay 
> the patch sure is ok

The patch was merged, thank you.

> i thought the file was not supposed to have such 
> huge delays

I did not find an application that didn't play the 
sample for 18 hours and I did not find any hint in 
the specification that 0xFFFF should be handled 
specifically. I did find several places where the 
maximum gif frame duration was mentioned as 0xFFFF.

Carl Eugen