[Ffmpeg-devel] Calculating PTS Times

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 08:00:59AM +0800, Colin Ward wrote:
> 
>   Hi all.
> 
>   I wonder if some kind soul could help me with my PTS calculations.  It
> seems that this is an area of confusion for many people.  Take a look at
> the attached snippet of code.  It is a simplified piece of code from my
> media player which decodes a video frame and calculates its PTS.  As you
> can see, it contains logic to both extract the PTS both when it is
> specified by the decoder *and* when it is not.
> 
>   From my understanding of FFMPEG this should for both VFR and CFR videos. 
> However, it does not work for all videos.  For some videos (both VFR and
> CFR) it calculates the PTS correctly and the video plays beautifully. 
> However, for others the calculated PTS values are crazy.  For instance last
> night I enabled MOV support and my calculated values were coming out as 1,
> 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 etc.  Yes, 1 as in 1 millisecond!  This was for an 8 FPS
> video.

Increment by one timebase unit is definitely NOT correct. You need to
obtain a pts value for each frame. For proper containers, every frame
will come with a pts value to begin with. For broken containers, it
can be a lot of work to get the pts.. :(

Rich