[FFmpeg-devel] drop entire frame when RTP packets are lost
Michael Niedermayer
michaelni at gmx.at
Mon Jul 2 18:28:46 CEST 2012
Hi Martin
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 09:36:07AM -0400, Martin Carroll wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> > I am interested in investigating what goes wrong in the decoder and
> > error concealment code that makes it look better with less data.
>
> I conjecture that at least part of the visual improvement that results from
> dropping entire frames (when RTP packets are lost) is the fact that
> by dropping
> entire frames, ffplay has a better chance of catching up with the
> RTP stream.
> There may be other factors at work as well.
>
> > so i would need something that i can feed into the decoder to
> reproduce this difference
>
> I presume that you have your favorite way of generating an RTP stream. If
> so, then I suggest that you just send it your favorite video and watch what
> happens with and without my patch. (My favorite video is glxgears.)
just tried, no corruption here with rtp, so i would assume your
patches wont make a difference
>
> And regarding my patch: Given that I am new to this list, I did not want to
> be presumptuous and send my patches up. Shall I do that now?
your patches are welcome!
though for this issue here, fixing it will require us to be able to
reproduce & analyze it. Droping frames sounds quite wrong.
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