[FFmpeg-devel] NUT end timestamp

[Paul B Mahol]

On 12/14/18, Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> Hi
>
> replying to a comment from IRC here because "durandal_1707 has quit" so it
> wouldnt be seen, and might be interresting for others so not mailing
> private
>
> <durandal_1707> michaelni: nut does not take into consideration duration of
> last frame to return real duration
> <durandal_1707> michaelni: so duration is always smaller by small amount
> <durandal_1707> michaelni: looks like design failure
>
> Its a bit ago that i worked on nut but the last frame duration was
> considered,
> i do remember there was discussion about it.
>
> looking at nut.txt, it says this:
>     All streams SHOULD end with EOR, where the pts of the EOR indicates the
>     end presentation time of the final frame.
>
> That stores and gives the last duration. Our muxer seems to not implement
> this
> so its a implementation issue not a design one

If one need to parse all packets to get last duration that is flawed design.