[FFmpeg-devel] strange seek problem matroska andavcodec_flush_buffers

[Don Moir]

>>> The thing is, the "bad_seek_matroska_strange" file is a worst case
>>> of this of the files I have. Some other files I have, have a very
>>> slight indication of this. Maybe something like 1/8 to 1/4 of a
>>> second. In these cases, settting CODEC_FLAG2_SHOW_ALL is worse
>>> because you will see distortion where previously it was clean. While
>>> seeing the distortion is helpful in some cases, I have more files
>>> that are effected negatively by it.
>>
>> I may be missing something, but this should be a bug, the demuxer
>> should be seeking exactly to a keyframe and CODEC_FLAG2_SHOW_ALL
>> should not make the slightest difference at all.
>
> That's what I was thinking but wasn't sure how error concealment came into 
> play there.

If this is a bug, I think it will be effecting libavcodec/h264.c and 
possibly libavcodec/mpeg12.c. I have an mpegts file with the same problem 
but this file as well as the "strange" file are both CODEC_ID_H264. I don't 
know what relationship mpeg12.c has if any, but just so you know.