[FFmpeg-user] Strange latency with some codecs

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Simon Pickles <pickles <at> thefoundry.co.uk> writes:

> In 2.1.4 I don't get 1 returned by got_packet_ptr. 
> However, if I keep trying to decode the frame, it 
> eventually starts to decode after FIFTEEN attempts!

(Do you have an eight-core cpu?)

I suspect this is the multi-threading delay, set 
threads to 1 to avoid it.

Carl Eugen