[NUT-devel] max pts/distance stuff

[Oded Shimon]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 08:50:11AM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:30:18PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > in the spec, 
> > 
> > there are several issues which need disscussion
> > 1. no limit for max_pts_distance, users could set it to insane values and
> >    cause troubble on the demuxer side, yes theres the time rescaling issue
> 
> IMO you just have to rely on file authors to pick something sane. Even
> if you did pick an arbitrary value, it would still be horribly wrong
> at some time scales. Consider for example a video of some micro-scale
> process recorded at tens of thousands of fps with real timestamps, and
> intended to be watched frame-by-frame or with -speed 0.001 or such.

Or a common example for the opposite, a time lapse....
Though you probably wouldn't use real timestamps in that example.

- ods15