[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] ffmpeg: add 100ms delay for first stats

[Gyan Doshi]

On 23-12-2020 03:53 pm, Nicolas George wrote:
> Gyan Doshi (12020-12-23):
>> That's not the issue. It's the mangled line - the output from lavf/dump.c.
>> mangled with stats line
>>
>> AV_NOPTS_VALUE is an acceptable value and already checked for at line 1815.
>> As is <=0 output size.
>>
>> Indicating to the user that ffmpeg processing has stalled at the beginning
>> is a valid and acceptable outcome, even a necessary one.
>> The delay here is just to avoid the mangling. Some hardcoded value is the
>> best that I see we can do, but if you have an analytical solution, I'm all
>> ears.
> Ah, I see. But in that case, the proper solution seems obvious: set a
> flag when av_dump_format() has returned, and delay the printing until
> that flag is set. Or am I still missing something?

It's    void av_dump_format(...)

Seems too trivial to change it , or add + initialize yet another global 
variable just for this.

Regards,
Gyan