[Libva] gstvaapidecode: 'play through errors?'

[Víctor M. Jáquez L.]

On 02/09/16 at 07:09pm, Ben White wrote:

> It looks to me like the vaapidecode element gives up at the first error
> whereas avdec_h264 and vlc can 'play past' the initial issues until they
> get valid data.
> 
> Question: Is there a way to instruct vaapidecode to keep trying if it hits
> a stream error instead of bailing immediately?

I guess the only way is to change the code of vaapidecode to drop frames
rather than fail. We should check the heuristics of how many frames dropped
before fail.

vmjl