[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/3] ffplay: reimplement early frame drop

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:33:21PM +0200, Marton Balint wrote:
> This patch reimplements early frame drop, it is now based on the current
> difference between the master clock and the video clock, and the pts of the
> current and the last displayed (or skipped) frame.  If the frame to be added to
> the queue is late after decoding, then we drop it early because later we would
> drop it anyway (unless it is the only frame in the picture queue).
> 
> The current approach has only one downside that I know of, it does not handle
> well when the filters are changing significantly the pts of the frames, because
> we compare pts values from filtered and unfiltered frames.
> 
> We also start using the pictq_mutex to ensure consistent video_current_pts,
> video_current_pts_drift, frame_last_pts, frame_last_dropped_pts and
> frame_last_dropped_pos values.

the patches work fine, thanks for looking into this


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