[FFmpeg-devel] Maintainership question

Måns Rullgård mans
Sun Feb 13 13:47:28 CET 2011


Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> writes:

> 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".

That would be a frame counter.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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