[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/1] [RFC] ffprobe: report DAR even if SAR is undefined

Michael Niedermayer michael at niedermayer.cc
Tue Apr 17 02:02:43 EEST 2018


On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 07:56:34PM +0200, Marton Balint wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2018, Timo Teras wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 16:42:01 +0200 (CEST)
> >Marton Balint <cus at passwd.hu> wrote:
> >
> >>On Sun, 15 Apr 2018, Timo Teräs wrote:
> >>
> >>> Calculate DAR with assumed SAR 1:1 when SAR is undefined. Same
> >>> assumption is done in ffplay to create the play window. Usually
> >>> DAR is more useful metadata than SAR when e.g. choosing which
> >>> media of multiple versions to use to fit the display.
> >>
> >>I don't think it's good idea to generally assume 1:1
> >>display_aspect_ratio for every undefined sample aspect ratio. It
> >>depends heavily on your actual use case. If MOV/MP4 specifies that
> >>1:1 SAR should be used, then maybe you should fix
> >>av_guess_sample_aspect_ratio instead, and return 1:1 there if the
> >>format context is MOV/MP4. You may add a demuxer (AVFMT) flag to
> >>signal that such behaviour should be used, and
> >>av_guess_sample_aspect_ratio can check for that demuxer flag.
> >
> >Looking at code, av_guess_sample_aspect_ratio() is used only in ffplay
> >and ffprobe.
> >
> >ffplay implicitly assumes undefined SAR is 1:1 to create the playback
> >window properly; this happens in calculate_display_rect() when
> >"bad" aspect_ratio is reset to 1.0.
> >
> >I would expect same logic would have been useful in ffprobe. This would
> >help to report back to user what ffplay is going to do with the video.
> >Or at least give a hint on how to categorize the clip. SAR 1:1 is
> >pretty good guess for most formats.
> 
> I really don't see why don't you fix your application instead which parses
> ffprobe output? If you see N/A aspect ratio, use 1:1.
> 
> To be frank, I am not sure if ffprobe should use av_guess_aspect_ratio when
> it displays stream metadata. It is only there now to av_reduce the aspect

> ratios and to sanitize some invalid aspect ratios to 0/1. FFprobe's job is
> to return stream metadata as is, not to make guesses.

a very minor somewhat on topic nitpick, 0/0 would be mathamtically more 
correct as unknown than 0/1. If one doesnt immedeatly see why, 
one can look at width/height vs height/width to see one of many reasons why

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