[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] get rid of AVFrac

Baptiste Coudurier baptiste.coudurier
Tue Dec 19 11:45:58 CET 2006


Hi

Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:40:00AM +0100, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 01:29:48AM +0100, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> Michael Niedermayer a ?crit :
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 07:01:59PM +0200, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 09:33:18PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>> this doesnt look correct ...
>>>>>> Hmm.. well, no idea what exactly the old code does and how.
>>>>>> Here is another try, it's the best I can do without further hints.
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> so what the code does is it simply fills in missing timestamps on
>>>>> the encoding side and it does so without rounding errors assuming
>>>>> constant framerate and a few other things allthough
>>>>> the usefullness of the whole is questionable (the user app should set
>>>>> the timestamps and not leave it to lav* to guess something)
>>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> IMHO drop "support" for missing dts on the encoder side completely it makes
>>>>> no sense at all, its like sending emails with no To: field
>>>>>
>>>> Here is an updated patch which drop support for missing pts or dts on 
>>>> the encoder side.
>>>>
>>>> However ffmpeg.c does not compile anymore, 
>>> that is a problem, patch rejected :)
>> Hehe, yes, but is the patch the good approach (get rid of AVFrac and
>> drop support for missing dts or pts on the encoder side), and therefore
>> ffmpeg.c must be updated, or should we keep st->pts ?
>>
>> If the latter, I would that say AVFrac is not that useless since
>> ffmpeg.c uses it, and it is exact.
>>
>>>> and Im not sure to know 
>>>> exactly what ffmpeg.c does, could st->pts be updated to use rescaled 
>>>> st->cur_dts ? Seems that cur_dts would only be 1 frame less that 
>>>> st->pts.val in that case, maybe Im wrong.
>>> yes cur_dts and st->pts represent the same thing IIRC ...
>>> the difference is that st->pts is exact and cur_dts is not, using the later
>>> will cause terrible AV-desync under the correct circumstances, think about
>>> a container timebase of 1/1000 and 30fps video, the duration of one frame
>>> is 33.333... in the container timebase, if you repeatly add 33 you will be
>>> off by 0.6 seconds per minute ...
>>>
>> I see. Now if st->pts is changed to int64_t and uses av_rescale_q from
>> codec timebase to stream timebase, is it less exact than AVFrac ?
> 
> that might work ...
> 

Ok, here is a new attempt. I quickly checked values of pts.val and new
pts values, they were equal, also with -vsync 0 -r 40.

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