[Ffmpeg-devel] av_frac_* static?

[Måns Rullgård]

Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:

> Hi
>
> On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 11:19:04PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> [...]
>> > timebases/framerate should fit in 32/32
>> 
>> You'd hope so.
>
> no not really, its not a question of hoping and then hell breaking loose
> if iam wrong, its rather knowing that 
> * almost all containers being unable to store more then 32/32
> * probably no application being able to accurately deal with more then
>   32/32
>
> at this point you just wonder from where do you get such a file and how
> could it be stored ...

That's sort of what I meant.

> * rounding to 32/32 and rounding timestamps, well your timestamps will be
>   off by <1ns
>
> and dont tell me to rewrite everything to avoid a 1ns error for a
> nonexistent hypothetical case

The strictest tolerance I've seen for timestamps is 500 ns for MPEG TS
PCR values.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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