[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Fix return value for incomplete H264 frame packets

[Laurent Aimar]

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 08:09:34AM +0200, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 02:11:17AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > H264 & H222 describe when each field should be displayed. Or in other words
> > they decribe how to calculate a timestamp for each field
> > about 1/4 of the code needed on the lavf side has been implemented
> > until the remaining code is implemented and it all is free of bugs it will
> > not always work
> 
> The timestamp stuff is all nice and well for normal playback,
> but it doesn't help to keep the -fps feature of MPlayer working
> that plays the video as if it was captured at a fixed frame rate.
> That's the main reason why I don't just want to switch to some
> other timing method even if it would fix the issue for most users.
 For that feature, what are the issues with simply counting the frames output
by the decoder?
 The one I see is with corrupted bitstream. But in this case, with field/paff
encoding, I don't see a correct way to count the number of corrupted *frames*
given to the decoder anyway.

-- 
fenrir