[Libav-user] Save frame to jpg with data from avcodec_decode_video2

[Camera Man]

On 06/26/2012 04:13 AM, Alex Cohn wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Simon Daniels 
> <simondaniels23 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't want to use the ffmpeg command-line to save out the frames 
>> because
>> for some reason the frame counts are not matching. Ffmpeg.exe saves more
>> frame jpegs than avcodec_decode_video2 seems to find.See an old thread
> http://libav-users.943685.n4.nabble.com/Save-AVFrame-to-jpg-file-td2314979.html

I've been using that code successfully. I've done a git pull recently, 
and noticed that the encoders (including mjpegs) are now frame/slice 
multithread capable. Does this mean it's possible that the return from 
avcodec_encode_video2 is somehow pipelined for mjpeg?

That is, when calling avcodec_decode_video2(), you put in a packet, you 
get a frame, but the frame might be related to an earlier packet (either 
because of I/P/B/reference frame reordering, or because of a 
multithreaded decoder).

Is it possible that when calling avcodec_encode_video2() for mjpeg, you 
will receive an encoded packet which is related to an earlier frame 
because of the new multithreading infrastructure?