[FFmpeg-devel] FIX: HLS Discontinuity / Non-Monotonous DTS

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On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:51:26 -0400
Joe Koberg <joe at koberg.us> wrote:

> I'm saying I don't think it needs it - MPEGTS does seem to handle the
> discontinuous input fine if I just concatenate it.
> 
> MPEG TS packets themselves do have a discontinuity flag in the
> adaptation field, but again it looks like it might be working as-is
> without explicit notification of them. (and probably should)
> 
> The question remains: what is missing to allow the HLS format to
> behave as MPEG-TS does right now?

First off, from hearing past rants from some people trying to use the
ffmpeg mpegts demuxer, it doesn't seem to handle these things fully
correctly.

Second, I'm talking about libavformat as a library, not whatever
"apparently working" hacks ffmpeg.c applies on top of it.