[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Enable PAFF decoding

[Reinhard Nissl]

Hi,

Thorsten Jordan wrote:

> Isn't that like with mpeg2? Take any piece out of a continous stream (TV
> broadcast, ...) that starts with a sequence header (mpeg2) or IDR frame
> (h264). In both cases there are B-frames before the I/IDR in
> presentation order. Decoders should skip them as they can't get decoded
> properly - neither with mpeg2 nor with h264....

But in MPEG2, there exists the closed group of pictures flag which
means, that such B frames would only reference the previous I frame and
not any P or I frame of the previous GOP, which is not available for
decoding in such a case.

Bye.
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Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl
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