[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Fix 0-byte Ogg packet handling

[Timothy B. Terriberry]

Here is a stab at fixing https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/3416
It should also fix https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/3550

Right now this decodes every 0-byte packet as if it were a new frame, 
returning the previous buffer to be displayed again. This should work 
"okay" for things like the 120 fps stockholm-vfr.ogg, but is still going 
to have problems for 1000 fps things like dupes.ogv (which is no longer 
available for me to test with... I will bug Greg about that).

I'm not sure the best approach to handle the 1000 fps case, e.g., what 
the ramifications are of dropping duplicate frames after decoding (as 
opposed to after demuxing) on time display updates, file length display, 
etc. However, 0-byte frames are not the only way to encode "duplicate" 
frames, and people have been using alternate approaches, which work out 
to about 9 bytes for a dropped frame, to avoid 0-byte packet demuxer 
bugs like this one.

So whatever approach we take, it should be based on checking for the 
TH_DUPFRAME return value of th_decode_packetin(), not the size of the 
packet. That return value is used whenever a frame copies over the 
previous reference frame without coding any blocks. Therefore the 1000 
fps case is not strictly related to 0-byte packets, and should be 
addressed in a separate patch.
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