[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: fix timefilter divergence

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 09:00:15PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 01:33:38PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> > L'octidi 28 pluviôse, an CCXX, Michael Niedermayer a écrit :
[...]
> > > Also theres another issue, if theres a significnat correction from
> > > NTPD that may mean the previous hours of recording used wrong
> > > timestamps. And if there are 2 streams (audio & video) which use
> > > seperate timefilter, they may with either implementation recover at
> > > different rates makeing the whole issue even worse
> > 
> > Indeed. But we can not do anything about it, timefilter or no timefilter. If
> > someone wants to sync streams with different time sources, it is their
> > responsibility to keep the time sources in sync.
> 
> iam not sure if we misunderstand each other here.
> but if we have audio and video both from the same time source (wall
> clock) and this gets shifted by a few hours due to NTP then the 2 will
> recover very differntly because each has a seperate timefilter
> one run per video frame and one run per audio packet.
> the AV sync errors between the packets after such NTP discontinuity
> should be in the order of minutes and could oscilate around both audio
> and video being late before converging to the correct value

a simple solution for this seems to be to let the user provide a limit
on the maximal correction, that is the maximum amount of noise in
a single value.
With this a discontinuity has nicely bound effects while a classic
filter would double in error when the discontinuity doubles.



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