[gst-devel] why MPEG fails

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi Martin,

On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 10:06, Martin Soto wrote:
> What? If you have to wait for a second, this means the audio and video
> timestamps don't match, or, rather, you're receiving a second of audio
> without accompanying video. Is that really normal with MPEG? My only
> experience with MPEG is with DVDs, and so far I haven't seen any DVDs
> showing that behavior (I have some 40 or 50 here at home).

Not normal, but it happens with buggy muxers. DVDs are mostly better
than that, fortunately. Download some MPEG movies from Kazaa and you'll
see. :).

> Among other things, one element waiting shouldn't block the pipeline, it
> should just block that element. I don't know if schedulers handle this
> properly, though.

They don't. ;).

Ronald