[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] libavdevice: JACK demuxer

Luca Abeni lucabe72
Fri Feb 27 21:02:34 CET 2009


Hi,

I do not comment on the rest of the patch (yet :), but:

Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
[...]
>> +            info.pts = av_gettime() - (latency + cycle_delay) * self->frame_ms;
> 
> The system time should not be stored anywhere without explicit
> permission from the user, particularly not as an absolute value.

This is needed for synchronising the audio with video or other media 
coming from other devices. If it really is a security issue (but in this
case I do not believe it is) maybe the usual "round the time to ms" can 
be a solution?


			Luca




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