[Libav-user] Is it possible to detect unused/invalid packets (without decoding)

[Max Vlasov]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:

> Max Vlasov <max.vlasov at ...> writes:
>
> > The idea was to read all packets saving pts and
> > keyframe flag (without decoding) and make a list
> > of them in order of ptses.
>
> (What are "packets" for you?)
>
> I don't know your exact requirements but at least
> for H.264 this approach cannot work.
>
>
I used av_read_frame reading packets from the video stream until the end of
file and stored pts of this structures reordering them assuming one packet
= one frame.
If pts is AV_NOPTS_VALUE (non-keyframe in avis) then I assumed the
sequential order relative to the previous one.

I tested thie algorithm determining the correct frame number by sequential
decoding and after that trying to jump to the same frame number with this
algorithm with a freshly opened file.
Several files I tried (mp4, wmv, avi, mkv (h264 inside)) worked ok. Apart
from the one I mentioned (with dozens of small packets), the heaviest
deviation was for a ts file recorded by a hdtv player from the air. Another
one has exactly one frame difference for the whole file
So if there's a legitimate reason why a packet that is a part of a video
stream may appear, but not used as a frame then it's ok I missed something.
I just would like to know what exactly I missed :)
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