[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 3/3] avdevice: use av_gettime_relative() for timestamps

[Kieran Kunhya]

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On Sun, 7 Feb 2021, 16:55 Nicolas George, <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Kieran Kunhya (12021-02-07):
> > Give the user the option not to use the monotonic clock.
>
> So this should be an option. Thank you very much.


Yes the montonic clock should be the default.

> This is not possible without high end capture equipment to synchronise the
> > clocks on each camera. Everything else is guesswork.
>
> This is nonsense. The accuracy of a PC wall time clock with NTP is
> plenty accurate enough for most practical purposes.
>

You misunderstand greatly. How does the clock rate of NTP magically make
its way to the camera? It doesn't except in very high end setups where the
oscillator on the camera is drifted to match an external time source.

Kieran

Regards,
>
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>   Nicolas George
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