[Libav-user] What is the correct way to read frames

[Nicolas George]

Le quartidi 4 germinal, an CCXXI, Pauli Suuraho a écrit :
> I'm a newcomer to use ffmpeg, and I've been bugging my mind about this one
> thing.
> 
> I have videoclips (either h264 or prores), and I want to extract all the
> frames. I'm using 32 bit ffmpeg-20130322-git-e0e8c20-win32 zeranoe
> shared+dev and Qt compiled using MSVC2010.
> 
> I'm using the following code to extract the frames.
> 
> http://pastebin.com/DrC9H6g0

This code is not very readable, due to the ugly c++ coding style and bloat.

> If I have a test clip that is 30 frames, 30fps long, for some reason the
> lib always extracts only 24 frames and then says end of file.

If I read it correctly, you are forgetting to flush the decoder after the
end of the stream. You have to feed empty packets to the decoder until it
returns no frame.

Note: the decoding example seems slightly invalid for that.

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Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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