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

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

DeHackEd <git <at> dehacked.net> writes:

> > So the bug is that the file gets longer when read with FFmpeg?
> 
> Heh... that's my fault for copy/pasting from the wrong invocation. 
> I have two test cases, one generated from the above testsrc and 
> one that actually consists of a 28+ hour recording from a real TV 
> source. It's a "real world" scenario but the file is about 90 
> gigabytes.

I am both able to record arbitrarily long mpegts files and to run 
FFmpeg to produce long samples.

But my question is: What goes wrong with the file?
And how can I reproduce this with a self-produced (or self-
recorded) file?

Carl Eugen