[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] libavformat/mpegts: Prevent wrapping of PTS & DTS

[Marton Balint]

On Sat, 11 Jun 2016, DeHackEd wrote:

> Presently the mpegts demuxer passes the timestamps from received packets directly to the output AVPackets. 2^33 / 90000
> seconds is about 26.5 hours at which point applications start having a fit, and that's assuming timestamps begin at time 0.
>
> So here's a first revision of a patch to fix that issue.
>
> Improvements possible:
> * In its current form intended for continuous sources like over-the-air receivers and multicast sources. When used on
> files there will be problems with seeking.
> * Constants such as 2^33 could be turned into macros for readability
>

I think there is already an infrastructure for handling PTS wraparound 
when decoding, check AVStream->pts_wrap_behaviour. Or is this something 
else?

Thanks,
Marton