[Libav-user] Reducing the Frame-Rate of a Network Video Stream

[Adi Shavit]

Hi Alex,

> You must decode all frames, or skip to the next IDR frame, if you want
> to avoid artifacts. Yes PTS is play timestamp. The units may depend
> on your stream format, and are generally expressed in terms of the
> timebase.

That's what I thought.
How do I detect an IDR (or non-IDR) frame?
Can I safely skip non-IDR frames without decoding them at all?

Thanks,
Adi