[MPlayer-G2-dev] Recommendations for DEMUXER layer

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 08:35:08PM +0100, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:06:55 +0200 (EET)
> "Ivan Kalvachev" <ivan at cacad.com> wrote:
> 
> > Just one quick question.
> > Here you talk about PTS - presentation time stamps.
> > Are you sure that they are not DTS- decoder time stamps?
> > Or maybe we need both?
> 
> While we are at it, could some explain why dts is needed ?
> Doesn't pts already cover everything ?

Yes. But some stupidly designed containers only provide DTS (usually
because they were only meant to support in-order codecs (where
DTS=PTS) and then some windows idiots hacked them to add B frames
support).

Rich