[vlc-devel] [PATCH 3/6] clock: add vlc_clock_SetDecoderLatency

[Thomas Guillem]

On Wed, Oct 9, 2019, at 21:22, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le keskiviikkona 9. lokakuuta 2019, 13.44.41 EEST Francois Cartegnie a écrit :
> > Le 03/10/2019 à 14:39, Rémi Denis-Courmont a écrit :
> > > Even a "moderate" increase in latency can break audio playback due to
> > > permanently too late buffers. And this will either do nothing or break in
> > > the case of dynamic (e.g. TS), dynamically enabled (e.g. multiple audio
> > > tracks), or irregular (e.g. voice codec) ES.
> > Either you break synchronisation, or you break video.
> > 
> > From the tests I have done, the patches do greatly improve our support
> > of video playback, even at 0.1 fps.
> 
> This does not work for multithread inputs (e.g. capture devices), for slaves, 
> for inputs with dynamic ES (TS, RTP) or more prosaically for fast/parallel 
> enough computers.
> 
> Good luck explaining to users that VLC fails because their computer is too 
> powerful.

We already have to explain to users that they can't read low fps (<15fps) video because their computer is too powerful.

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