[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/6 v2] lavu: add av_gettime_relative()

[Olivier Langlois]

On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 20:58 +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 04:26:37PM -0400, Olivier Langlois wrote:
> > It is very easy to experience the issues that this patch attempt to address
> > by rewinding back in the past the system time while ffmpeg is running.
> > 
> > this is breaking the ffmpeg report printing (ffmepg.c:print_report()) and
> > the the rate emulator functionality (-re) without the patch.
> 
> I still think these should be fixed to not be so brittle and handle
> strange clock values more gracefully.

These are fixed and rock solid on platforms supporting
POSIX_CLOCK_MONOTONIC (Linux, maybe macos) with part 2/6 of this patch:

https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2014-May/157346.html

If possible, someone could adapt av_gettime_relative() implementation to
make it monotonic on Windows or some other platforms as well.