[Ffmpeg-devel] Calculating PTS Times

[Colin Ward]

Rich Felker wrote:
> 

   [Snip]

>>  Well lots of decoders output 0 for all of their frames with my build 
>>of the libraries.
> 
> The pts from the decoder is generally meaningless/invalid, except for
> a few codecs that can be used 'raw' without a container, and even for
> these pts is likely invalid if there is a container. You really need
> to obtain pts from the demuxer.

   Ok.  Take a look at this example code then:

VideoFrame = avcodec_alloc_frame();

BytesDecoded = avcodec_decode_video(VideoContext, VideoFrame, 
&VideoFrameReady, RawData, BytesRemaining);

if (BytesDecoded >= 0)
{
   if (VideoFrameReady > 0)

   if ((VideoFrame->pts == 0) || (VideoFrame->pts == (int64_t) 
AV_NOPTS_VALUE))
   {
     PTS += (int64_t) ((AV_TIME_BASE * av_q2d(VideoContext->time_base) / 
1000));
   }
   else
   {
     PTS = (long) ((VideoFrame->pts * av_q2d(VideoContext->time_base)) * 
1000);
   }
}

av_free(VideoFrame);

   The VideoFrame->pts value is the one that is usually incorrect.  Is 
this being placed here by the decoder?  Where do I get the pts that has 
been calculated by the demuxer?

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