[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/3] ffplay: reimplement early frame drop

[Marton Balint]

On Sat, 22 Oct 2011, Michael Niedermayer wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:33:21PM +0200, Marton Balint wrote:
>> This patch reimplements early frame drop, it is now based on the current
>> difference between the master clock and the video clock, and the pts of the
>> current and the last displayed (or skipped) frame.  If the frame to be added to
>> the queue is late after decoding, then we drop it early because later we would
>> drop it anyway (unless it is the only frame in the picture queue).
>>
>> The current approach has only one downside that I know of, it does not handle
>> well when the filters are changing significantly the pts of the frames, because
>> we compare pts values from filtered and unfiltered frames.
>>
>> We also start using the pictq_mutex to ensure consistent video_current_pts,
>> video_current_pts_drift, frame_last_pts, frame_last_dropped_pts and
>> frame_last_dropped_pos values.
>
> the patches work fine, thanks for looking into this
>

Great, I pushed the patches to my stable branch.

Regards,
Marton