[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] avformat: add AVFormatContext.first_pkt_wallclock

[Gyan Doshi]

On 2022-06-28 10:43 am, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> Quoting Gyan Doshi (2022-06-25 10:29:50)
>> Stores wallclock time for the first packet received.
>> Used for crude sync offset among inputs.
>> ---
>>   doc/APIchanges         |  3 +++
>>   libavformat/avformat.h | 10 ++++++++++
>>   libavformat/demux.c    |  3 +++
>>   libavformat/options.c  |  1 +
>>   libavformat/version.h  |  2 +-
>>   5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> Why should this be in the library? Seems to me this can be just as
> easily done by the callers who need it.

To not add some extra latency,  just like how 
`use_wallclock_as_timestamps` was implemented inside lavf.

Regards,
Gyan