[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avformat/options_table, doc/formats: clarify meaning of igndts as per definition in avformat.h

Marth64 marth64 at proxyid.net
Sun Dec 10 05:05:13 EET 2023


This confused me for a long time, hopefully this is helpful to others.
The definition in avformat.h says "Ignore DTS on frames that contain both DTS & PTS"

Signed-off-by: Marth64 <marth64 at proxyid.net>
---
 doc/formats.texi            | 2 +-
 libavformat/options_table.h | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/formats.texi b/doc/formats.texi
index 640b23b790..2ebcef50c0 100644
--- a/doc/formats.texi
+++ b/doc/formats.texi
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Enable fast, but inaccurate seeks for some formats.
 @item genpts
 Generate missing PTS if DTS is present.
 @item igndts
-Ignore DTS if PTS is set. Inert when nofillin is set.
+Ignore DTS if PTS is also set. Inert when nofillin is set.
 @item ignidx
 Ignore index.
 @item nobuffer
diff --git a/libavformat/options_table.h b/libavformat/options_table.h
index 91708de453..4ee3fc1d81 100644
--- a/libavformat/options_table.h
+++ b/libavformat/options_table.h
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static const AVOption avformat_options[] = {
 {"genpts", "generate pts", 0, AV_OPT_TYPE_CONST, {.i64 = AVFMT_FLAG_GENPTS }, INT_MIN, INT_MAX, D, "fflags"},
 {"nofillin", "do not fill in missing values that can be exactly calculated", 0, AV_OPT_TYPE_CONST, {.i64 = AVFMT_FLAG_NOFILLIN }, INT_MIN, INT_MAX, D, "fflags"},
 {"noparse", "disable AVParsers, this needs nofillin too", 0, AV_OPT_TYPE_CONST, {.i64 = AVFMT_FLAG_NOPARSE }, INT_MIN, INT_MAX, D, "fflags"},
-{"igndts", "ignore dts", 0, AV_OPT_TYPE_CONST, {.i64 = AVFMT_FLAG_IGNDTS }, INT_MIN, INT_MAX, D, "fflags"},
+{"igndts", "ignore dts (if pts is also set)", 0, AV_OPT_TYPE_CONST, {.i64 = AVFMT_FLAG_IGNDTS }, INT_MIN, INT_MAX, D, "fflags"},
 {"discardcorrupt", "discard corrupted frames", 0, AV_OPT_TYPE_CONST, {.i64 = AVFMT_FLAG_DISCARD_CORRUPT }, INT_MIN, INT_MAX, D, "fflags"},
 {"sortdts", "try to interleave outputted packets by dts", 0, AV_OPT_TYPE_CONST, {.i64 = AVFMT_FLAG_SORT_DTS }, INT_MIN, INT_MAX, D, "fflags"},
 {"fastseek", "fast but inaccurate seeks", 0, AV_OPT_TYPE_CONST, {.i64 = AVFMT_FLAG_FAST_SEEK }, INT_MIN, INT_MAX, D, "fflags"},
-- 
2.34.1



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