[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Make sure AVFormatContext->start_time is initialized after the first patch

[Martin Storsjö]

On Tue, 25 May 2010, Michael Niedermayer wrote:

> The problem might be that ffserver calls av_seek_frame()
> with that the first packet demuxed might no longer correspond to the
> first packet.
> thus i think its not unreasonable if lavf doesnt set start_time to the
> first dts/pts once seeking has happened

Hmm, good point.

But given this, since we cannot absolutely rely on start_time being 
initialized, the if statement

    if (ist->start_time != AV_NOPTS_VALUE)
        c->cur_pts -= av_rescale_q(ist->start_time, ist->time_base, AV_TIME_BASE_Q);

in ffserver.c must have an else branch. If not, c->cur_pts will have a 
value in the wrong range (absolute instead of relative), which completely 
messes things up. And IMO, this would be fixed by the attached patch.

// Martin
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