[vlc-devel] RFC decoder b_pace_control field

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On 15 Feb, Rafaël Carré wrote :
> On 02/15/14 14:41, Denis Charmet wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > It looks like avcodec module silently drop video frames.
> 
> The first step should be to add an error message in these cases IMO.
> 
> > While looking
> > at it I found out that it checks for p_dec->b_pace_control which is only
> > set in src/misc/images but not in src/input/decoder.c
> > 
> > Shouldn't there be something like that in decoder_New
> > 
> > --- a/src/input/decoder.c
> > +++ b/src/input/decoder.c
> > @@ -289,6 +289,8 @@ static decoder_t *decoder_New( vlc_object_t
> > *p_parent, input
> >          return NULL;
> >      }
> >  
> > +    p_dec->b_pace_control = var_GetBool( p_input, "can-rate" );z
> >      return p_dec;
> >  }
> > 
> > Or am I missing the whole point of this flag?
> 
> According to Ilkka this is an old hack that is only used by avcodec and
> libmpeg2 to
> ignore late frames when decoding a single picture.

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