[MPlayer-dev-eng] NUT dts proposal

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:39:36PM +0300, Uoti A Urpala wrote:
> > and what about:
> > 
> > Muxed frame oder:   I0 P3 B1 B2 I100 B4 ... B99 P103 B101 B102
> > Current dts system: -1  0  1  2    3  4 ...  99  100  101  102
> > Possible new dts:    0  1  1  2    4  4 ...  99  101  101  102
> > 
> > here the new system "fails" too, and as loren has already said
> 
> I don't consider this a "failure" of the muxing system. This stream
> has dependencies between distant frames, and it's simply impossible to
> mux such a stream so that each part would be playable locally. The
> current dts system fails with streams that could be muxed better.
> 
> > the alternatives have issues with 1 in 1 out decoders
> 
> Yes, decoders limited in that way could cause problems. Those problems
> can be worked around by buffering frames in the demuxer though. In the

no, thats not possible, the buffering and delay is proportional to the
gap length, which isnt limited -> delay is not limited -> player will
run out off data before a large gap

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-- 
Michael