[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] flag CODEC_FLAG2_RETURN_INCOMPLETE_FRAMES

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 11:22:08AM -0700, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
>> 2010/11/5 Anatoly Nenashev <anatoly.nenashev at ovsoft.ru>:
>> > Hi!
>> > Due to Michael's comments in a thread "MxPEG decoder" the flag
>> > CODEC_FLAG2_RETURN_INCOMPLETE_FRAMES has been added.
>> > It can be useful for h264 format also.
>>
>> Is this related to the patch I have here (hack)?
>
> iam not sure, if it can be used for this.
> Either way our decoder should be fixed to return such incomplete frames once
> it sees a slice of the next frame
> or maybe a access unit delimiter could be injected to force the last frame to
> be retunrned but this is somewhat a hack too

FYI this hack is being used in production (or will be very soon) on a
client-side ffmpeg-based video application, so there are people who
consider the ability to say "this frame is done" (or at least get back
the frame eventually) important.

Jason