[FFmpeg-devel] Supporting container formats with PTS gaps (Ogg)

[Måns Rullgård]

Robert Swain <robert.swain at gmail.com> writes:

> 2009/2/2 M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com>:
>> Peter Ross <pross at xvid.org> writes:
>>> This is adequate for simple playback, but when copying an Ogg file
>>> to another format, things break. For example, the ffmpeg program
>>> tries to calculate the DTS value from the previous PTS (see
>>> output_packet() ffmpeg.c ~1396). There is some other functional
>>> cruft in libavformat that attempts to calculate PTS from DTS
>>> (compute_pkt_fields2() in libavformat/utils.c ~2548).
>>
>> I consider this mess a flaw in the FFmpeg design.  Some formats
>> provide only occasional timestamps, and there is no generic way to
>> find the missing timestamps without (more or less) decoding the
>> elementary streams.  The current approach seems to be vigorous denial
>> of this, and a half-baked attempt at inventing the missing
>> timestamps.  More often than not this fails, resulting in the infamous
>> "non-monotone timestamps" error when stream-copying.
>
> This issue seems to come up quite a lot. What can be done to make the
> system more robust? Is decoding the elementary streams the only way?
> If so, shouldn't this 'brute force' approach at the very least be an
> option?

Timestamp interpolation should only be done when required, not by
default.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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