[gst-devel] ffdec and QoS

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On Tuesday 09 June 2009 19:50:29 Wim Taymans wrote:
> >  The core of the problem, I think, is that the QoS handling doesn't take
> > into account pipeline latency.  It just assumes that throughput =
> > 1/latency and doesn't seem to take into account that data can be buffered
> > in the pipeline.
>
> QoS does take latency into account (or else RTSP or RTP streams would
> never play). It's probably that ffmpeg totally does not specify its
> latency and thus it seems that buffers are simply arriving too late.
> Adding a meaningful reply to the LATENCY query in ffmpeg will likely
> solve this.

 Sounds good.  How does ffmpeg know the latency, though?  It buffers one 
frame, but since the framerate is unknown you can't convert this to time, can 
you?

 Regards,
 Arnout

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