[Libav-user] Corrupted stream flags not set

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

2019-02-13 16:35 GMT+01:00, Strahinja Radman <dr.strashni at gmail.com>:

> Why is it that neither AV_PKT_FLAG_CORRUPT (in AVPacket) nor
> AV_FRAME_FLAG_CORRUPT nor
> FF_DECODE_ERROR_INVALID_BITSTREAM nor
> FF_DECODE_ERROR_MISSING_REFERENCE (in AVFrame) are
> set but mpegts demuxer (UDP input) shows errors when I set
> ffmpeg log level of 40? The stream has perceivable errors in
> decoded frames.

Not all code paths set these flags.

Historically, it was far more important to decode broken streams
than to report that streams are broken.

Carl Eugen