[FFmpeg-user] concat - C needs to go before B - How?

[Paul B Mahol]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 10:12 AM Mark Filipak <markfilipak.imdb at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Gyan, Paul, Devin, Jim, anyone. Help!
>
> You folks have been following my trim+concat adventure. I think I may have
> found the problem, not
> just for me. It's a general problem.
>
> "N" signifies one frame time. All times are relative to ptsA.
>
> __DTS__  _PTS__
> ptsA-2N  ptsA    I-frame with DTS-to-PTS=2N <- call this frame "A"
> ptsA-N   ptsA-N  B-frame with DTS-to-PTS=0  <- call this frame "B"
> --- join here ---
> ptsA-2N  ptsA+N  I-frame with DTS-to-PTS=3N <- call this frame "C"
>
> You see, dtsC is before dtsB, so C needs to go before B. That's not
> happening.
>
> I don't know of a way to force C to be before B in order to test whether
> that fixes the glitch. Do you?
>
> Aside: Is it okay if dtsC==dtsA?
>

dts can be anything, and for decoding only pts are relevant.


>
> --Mark.
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