[Libav-user] How to know if lavf guessed the duration from the bitrate or not?

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:44:03AM -0600, Michael Bradshaw wrote:
> avformat_find_stream_info() attempts to find the file's and streams'
> durations, but it will guess them based on the bitrate if it can't
> determine the actual duration. This guess can be useful, but I need to
> be able to know if the AVFormatContext's or AVStream's duration was a
> guess   based on the bitrate or not, so I know how much I should trust
> this duration.
> 
> Is there a way to know this?

One could parse the av_log() output other then that, i dont think
theres a way thats not quite fragile currently.

One thing that could be done is extending the API with  a flag that
specifies the expected accuracy of the duration field

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