[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 37/57] avcodec/mpegutils: Don't output wrong mb skip values

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 03:48:33PM +0200, Andreas Rheinhardt wrote:
> The earlier code had two problems:
> 1. For reference frames that are not directly output (happens unless
> low_delay is set), the mb skip values referred to the next reference
> frame to be decoded.
> 2. For non-reference frames, every macroblock was always considered
> skipped.
> This makes the output (worse than) useless; that no one ever
> complained about this shows that this feature is not really used.
> It is therefore removed.

I used it for statistical purposes long ago, seeing how much blocks where
skiped and for that a +-1 frame difference is inconsequantal. Also
i understood that B frame are handled differently, its an internal
bitstream related number after all

thx

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