[FFmpeg-devel] first_dts set to RELATIVE_TS_BASE in vorbis audio

[Don Moir]

>> On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 07:57:17AM -0400, Don Moir wrote:
>>>> In recent builds I now see that the AVStream.first_dts is set to 
>>>> RELATIVE_TS_BASE which is 0x7ffeffffffffffff.
>>>>
>>>> RELATIVE_TS_BASE is defined in libavformat\utils.c
>>>>
>>>> Not sure what all this effects, but I am seeing it in ogg files with 
>>>> vorbis audio for the audio stream.
>>>>
>>>> Previously, the first_dts value was always reliable in that it was set 
>>>> correctly or it contained AV_NOPTS_VALUE.
>>>>
>>>> Is this a bug or what does it mean ?
>>
>>>do you have a testcase ?
>>>i mean a file + command line that shows a wrong output or something ?
>>>its easyier to look into this when we look at the same case
>>>instead of picking a random file and random options that certainly
>>>would be different from what you used
>>
>> I was hoping someone could answer why this was changed.
>>
>> It looks like all my ogg files have this problem in the audio stream 
>> only, but it may be effecting other formats. Mostly it looks ok with 
>> other formats but not sure.
>>
>> The value in first_dts may be exactly RELATIVE_TS_BASE as in the 
>> following sample or RELATIVE_TS_BASE minus some unknown.
>>
>> http://sms.pangolin.com/temp/bad_first_dts_in_audio_stream.ogv
>>
>
> The last known good to me is git-e01f478 but there may be a more recent 
> version that was good.
>
> The failing version that i first discovered it is git-41a097a but it may 
> fail in earlier version. git-6bfb304 is still a problem.

By the way, I can't point you to actual failing senario. I use the first_dts 
value to determine the offset time for a stream. If this is not used as an 
offset then the timing can be off. I have noticed parcular behavior before 
with ffplay etc related to this but I don't remember the exact files used to 
produce that offhand.

All you need to do is open the above sample and check the first_dts value 
for the audio stream. It will be RELATIVE_TS_BASE. This never occured with 
previous builds and so now first_dts is not reliable and I figure this is a 
bug but no one has been forthcoming with any answer.