[vlc] Re: measure dropped frame rates; what happens when a frame drops?

[Måns Rullgård]

Derk-Jan Hartman <hartman at videolan.org> writes:

> On 14 mrt 2005, at 14:45, Benjamin Pracht wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005, Eric Jonas wrote :
>>> Hello! I'm using VLC under OSX; I have two questions:
>>>
>>> 1. If I play a video, is there any way to get the number of dropped
>>> frames?
>>
>> Well, this should be displayed as debug message in the Window->info
>> dialog...
>>
>>> 2. What exactly happens when you drop a frame?
>>
>> AFAIK, the previous frame is only remplced when a new one is
>> decoded, so
>> that would be behaviour 1
>
> Also note that VLC usually tries to do everything it can to prevent
> framedropping. Framedropping should only occur during significant CPU
> load or if the CPU is too slow to decode the video.

Or if playing an MPEG-TS with dodgy PCR values.

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Måns Rullgård
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