[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avformat/mov: set AVFMT_SEEK_TO_PTS flag

[Gyan]

On 03-05-2019 03:00 AM, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 7:42 PM Sasi Inguva
> <isasi-at-google.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
>> Looks good to me. We were already doing PTS based seeking in MOV demuxer
>> (although it's not perfect).
>>
> There are several problems with the MOV approach however. You cannot
> look at AVStream->index_entries, take a timestamp of such an index,
> and then ask the demuxer to seek to it. Because one is PTS and one is
> DTS, you would end up somewhere else.
> This mismatch is rather annoying if you want to use the index for
> anything externally.
>
> I know its a tad bit off-topic here, but this patch directly touches
> this area, and I ran into this just quite recently.
>
> Patch is good either way, it just documents what the demuxer does.
>
Will apply soon.

Thanks,
Gyan