[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavf/mov.c: Offset index timestamps by the minimum pts to make first pts zero.

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On Tue,  6 Jun 2017 11:16:01 -0700
Sasi Inguva <isasi-at-google.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:

> Fixes t/6421. If the videos starts with B frame, then the minimum composition time as computed by stts + ctts will be non-zero. Hence we need to shift the DTS, so that the first pts is zero. This was the intention of that code-block. However it was subtracting by the wrong amount.
> For example, for one of the videos in the bug nonFormatted.mp4 we have
> stts:
> sample_count  duration
> 960                  1001
> ctts:
> sample_count  duration
> 1   3003
> 2   0
> 1   3003
> ....
> 
> The resulting composition times are :  3003, 1001, 2002, 6006, ...
> The minimum composition time or PTS is 1001, which should be used to offset DTS. However the code block was wrongly using ctts[0] which is 3003. Hence the PTS was negative. This change computes the minimum pts encountered while fixing the index, and then subtracts it from all the timestamps after the edit list fixes are applied.
> 
> fate-suite/h264/twofields_packet.mp4 is a similar file starting with 2 Bframes. Before this change the PTS of first two B-frames was -6006 and -3003, and I am guessing one of them got dropped when being decoded and remuxed  to the framecrc before, and now it is not being dropped.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sasi Inguva <isasi at google.com>
> ---

Applied. I added line breaks and white space to the commit message, and
added links to those chromium issues. I hope that's ok.