[Libav-user] get compressed frame sizes without decoding

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

2018-05-18 6:52 GMT+02:00, Martin Belleau <martin.belleau at gmail.com>:
> I see that, when decoding video frames from a source file,
> AVFrame::pkt_size contains the compressed size for each frame.

I would have expected that this is not correct, ie that you get the
pkt_size by demuxing the source file and that decoding is not
necessary.

Note that one packet does not necessarily equal to one frame,
think of PAFF.

Carl Eugen