[Ffmpeg-devel] Timestamps on Decoding

[Måns Rullgård]

Nico Sabbi <nsabbi at tiscali.it> writes:

> Paul Curtis wrote:
>
>> Rich Felker wrote:
>>
>>> Using DTS as PTS is blatently incorrect whenever there are B
>>> frames. It will actually put the timestamps OUT OF ORDER!
>>
>>
>> In using the mpeg container, with MPEG2 video and MPEG2 audio, I have
>> not found an out of order frame yet. The encoder (MainActor) defaults to
>> IBBPBBPBBPBBPBBPBB (18 frames between I, every third frame P) ... so my
>> code must be doing something more than you assume.
>
> so Mainactor is outputting frames in display (rather than decoding ) order ?

An MPEG file with frames in anything other than decode order is illegal.

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