[FFmpeg-devel] Maintainership question

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 01:15:36AM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Nicolas George <nicolas.george at normalesup.org> writes:
> 
> > Now, the first question: should this timestamp guessing logic exist at all?
> >
> > After a client application calls avcodec_decode_videoX, it has no less than
> > four potential timestamps for this frame:
> > - the packet PTS,
> > - the packet DTS,
> > - the reordered PTS,
> > - the codec timestamp.
> 
> There is no such thing as a "codec timestamp".

Then call it "what you would get when you dumped the video as raw ES stream
and then played it back".