[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] v4l2 frame rates

[Luca Abeni]

Hi all,

the current v4l2 input format requires that the user specifies a
frame rate for the input. Such frame rate, which can be completely
wrong, is used for initialising the input codec time base and is
stored in the video_data structure, but is never actually used...

So, I think this "feature" should be removed, as in the attached
patch. After applying the patch, if the user does not specify a
frame rate the standard "1 us" time base is used (and the input
codec is considered as variable frame rate).
But it is still possible to specify a frame rate for the input, to
avoid the av_find_stream_info() delay (in case of variable frame rate,
this function always tries to read some packets... The results in a
2.5s delay when opening the input).

I am still unsure if this is the best solution (I think it is an
improvement respect to the current behaviour, but maybe we can do
something better...), hence the RFC (yes, I already considered the idea
of querying the video standard to obtain the correct frame rate... But
this does not work for some webcams).


				Thanks,
					Luca
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