[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v3] ffmpeg: add option -isync

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting Gyan Doshi (2022-07-08 05:56:21)
> 
> 
> On 2022-07-07 03:11 pm, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> > Quoting Gyan Doshi (2022-07-04 18:29:12)
> >> This is a per-file input option that adjusts an input's timestamps
> >> with reference to another input, so that emitted packet timestamps
> >> account for the difference between the start times of the two inputs.
> >>
> >> Typical use case is to sync two or more live inputs such as from capture
> >> devices. Both the target and reference input source timestamps should be
> >> based on the same clock source.
> >>
> >> If not all inputs have timestamps, the wallclock times at the time of
> >> reception of inputs shall be used. FFmpeg must have been compiled with
> >> thread support for this last case.
> > I'm wondering if simply using the other input's InputFile.ts_offset
> > wouldn't achieve the same effect with much less complexity.
> 
> That's what I initially did. But since the code can also use two other 
> sources for start times (start_time_realtime, first_pkt_wallclock),
> those intervals may not exactly match the difference between 
> fmctx->start_times so I use a generic calculation.

In what cases is it better to use either of those two other sources?

As per the commit message, the timestamps of both inputs are supposed to
come from the same clock. Then it seems to me that offsetting each of
those streams by different amounts would break synchronization rather
than improve it.

-- 
Anton Khirnov