[FFmpeg-devel] libavdevice: PTS stability and risks of drift

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 04:56:19PM +0100, Luca Abeni wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> [...]
> >> I do not know what to say about the "gettimeofday() vs monotonic clock" issue,
> >> since I do not know NTP too much (can it really cause such large "jumps" in the
> >> system time?).
> > 
> > yes, if your time is off by an hour, it can change it by an hour
> 
> Of course ;-)
> My question was more if NTP allows the host time to diverge so much from
> the reference... As I said, I do not know much about NTP, but I'd naively
> expect that it corrects the time often enough, so only small adjustments
> are needed... But maybe I am expecting too much from it.

some people might run ntpdate once a day or week this might lead to a few
second stepping of the time when its run, i dont think an hour is realistic.

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