[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] libavformat/mpegts: Prevent wrapping of PTS & DTS

[DeHackEd]

On 06/11/2016 08:19 PM, Marton Balint wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 11 Jun 2016, DeHackEd wrote:
> 
>> Presently the mpegts demuxer passes the timestamps from received packets directly to the output AVPackets. 2^33 / 90000
>> seconds is about 26.5 hours at which point applications start having a fit, and that's assuming timestamps begin at
>> time 0.
>>
>> So here's a first revision of a patch to fix that issue.
>>
>> Improvements possible:
>> * In its current form intended for continuous sources like over-the-air receivers and multicast sources. When used on
>> files there will be problems with seeking.
>> * Constants such as 2^33 could be turned into macros for readability
>>
> 
> I think there is already an infrastructure for handling PTS wraparound when decoding, check
> AVStream->pts_wrap_behaviour. Or is this something else?

The behaviour here is that when the DTS is less than its original value, it will be incremented by the wrap point --
2^33 in this case. But that's all it does. If the timestamp comes back around to its original value, the effect stops
and you get non-monotonic DTS values. In the mpegts case this means that regardless of the starting point of the
timestamps you will get 26.5 hours before it breaks.

> 
> Thanks,
> Marton
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