[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] flv is not low_delay

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:03:47AM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 04:04:26AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 01:46:39AM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I think that current low_delay and thus has_b_frames is set incorrectly
> > > for flv.
> > > This causes some issues for MPlayer, and while MPlayer probably shouldn't
> > > rely on it so much, below patch fixes the issue.
> > > Does it look ok to you?
> > 
> > elaborate on why you think low_delay should be 0 here?
> 
> Because in ff_flv_decode_picture_header there is this code line:
>     s->pict_type = FF_I_TYPE + get_bits(&s->gb, 2);
> However I obviously missed the following lines:
>     s->dropable= s->pict_type > FF_P_TYPE;
>     if (s->dropable)
>         s->pict_type = FF_P_TYPE;
> which wouold mean that only I and P frames exist, so
> the change would be wrong.
> Wonder what is going wrong then...

Ok, it seems non-B, non-reference frames had MPlayer a bit confused.
Really weird, what is the purpose of flv having such frames?
Just so that you can drop some frames? Strange.