[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] av_get_delay

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 04:33:02PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le duodi 12 messidor, an CCXIX, Michael Niedermayer a écrit :
> > you seem to missunderstand this somehow.
> > when you have 2 streams, 2 muxers, one only video and one only audio
> > and you want to sync them but the video muxer tells you as delay
> > only 0seconds or 30seconds you wont get sync better than 30seconds and
> > thats really not good for a slideshow of lets say pictures in a museum
> > that are being commented.
> 
> I believe the crux of the problem is this: there are two different possible
> meanings for the delay:
> 
> - The data that is being output now is the data that I wrote <delay> ago.
> 
> - If I write data now, it will be output in <delay>.

These are both bad actually.
the reason is they are non constant and that on a normal multitasking
OS the results will be unreliable because time can pass between 2
get delay calls or any get time call.

the obvious solution would be to
* Consider a media stream to be a continuous stream not made of samples
  or frames
* Return as delay the pair of (wallclock, current presented position in
  sufficeint high precission)

The advnatage is that the (correctly scaled) difference between these
2 would be truly constant up to the drift of the (sound/video)
device clock and the system clock.

So the timing of when to do the call becomes irrelevant.
and AV sync can be achived by doing such a call for video and one for
audio and then compensating either stream by the difference. And that
works even when the 2 calls are done some time appart.

a muxer that has no native capability to obtain such a time pair
exactly could still use what it has + a call to get the wall clock.
it would be less accurate but not worse than doing seperate calls
outside

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