[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC/PATCH] matroska timestamps not always pts

[elupus]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:33:38 -0500, Rich Felker wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 11:16:52PM +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
>> Il Wednesday 21 November 2007 23:09:52 elupus ha scritto:
>> 
>>> <elupus> i've got the ffmpeg people to listen. just need one
>>> verification. in ms compatibility mode, are the timestamps stored
>>> as a copy of the psuevdo timestamps in avi generated from
>>> framenumber?
>>> <elupus> ie timestamps can never be out of order even in the case
>>> of mpeg4 with b frames
>>> <Haali> yes, vfw compat mode is a copy of avi
>>>
>> 
>> I know it's OT but who thought of such crap must have been _really_ 
>> drunk
> 
> Well, it just means in this stupid compatibility mode, the demuxer
> needs to deliver dts only and no pts. Then the parsers can worry about
> fixing it as necessary. Time to add mkv to the list of broken formats,
> tho...
> 
> Rich

Since i spotted some errors in the supplied patch and my mail client kept
sending junk. Here is an updated version of the patch.

/Joakim
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