[vlc-devel] [PATCH] rework the video frame skipping/dropping strategy in the avcodec decoder

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le 2015-02-27 11:48, Steve Lhomme a écrit :
> One of the odd things about this bug, that you can see in the issue:
> https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/10114
> Is that `main warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 
> 54 ms)`
>
> The renderer has the picture already decoded but refuses to show it.
> Just because it's late. I understand it might just show some
> desynchronization with the sound (this file has no sound) but is it
> better to not display anything when your CPU is overloaded ?

This may be less prevalent now than when the code was written, but 
rendering a picture can consume a lot of CPU (for filters and 
conversions) and/or a lot of time (if the video output is slow). Also 
50ms is already longer than the typical frame period (assuming more than 
20 fps), so there should already be a newer picture to render.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont