[vlc-devel] [PATCH] [codec/dirac.c] Fix aspect ratio signalling and presentation time stamps

[David Flynn]

On 2008-06-29, Laurent Aimar <fenrir at via.ecp.fr> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008, David Flynn wrote:
>> - Do not set p_pic->date = p_block->i_pts, p_block will be several frames
>>   ahead of p_pic, worse it isn't in presentation order.  Since there is
>>   no method of tagging input blocks with PTS through the decoder, fake
>>   the PTS at output based upon the an initial PTS and frame rate.
>  This is not a usable solution:
>  - if you are not using an input file, you do not control the pace. The
> difference between the real PTS and the fake one will grow indefinitly.

This is merely a get-you-home solution/hack.   As it currently stands,
without this 'fix', it isn't possible to use codec/dirac.c to decode
anything.  It will fail in precicely the way you say.  The solution is
to add tagging in the same way i've done in schroedinger.c.

I'll have a look at this in a bit.

> Unless the support by ffmpeg is really worst, I would prefer letting ffmpeg
> decode dirac until this issue is fixed.

I've not managed to see pictures when using avcodec and avcodec's
libschroedinger/libdirac support.

That said, codec/schroedinger.c would be my prefered method.

..david