PR #23142 opened by Diego de Souza (ddesouza)
URL: https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/23142
Patch URL: https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/23142.patch

H.264 Baseline profile cannot contain B-frames, but the NVENC preset
defaults and the max_b_frames-derived frameIntervalP override leave
frameIntervalP > 1 when -profile:v baseline is requested. The
unconditional check at the end of nvenc_setup_encoder() then sets
has_b_frames = 2, which propagates to the muxer and causes
compute_muxer_pkt_fields() to back-calculate
DTS = PTS - (delay + 1) * frame_duration. The resulting bitstream
contains no B-frames, yet every packet has a spurious 3-frame PTS/DTS
gap, breaking MPEG-TS/HLS output and DTS-based players.

This patch forces frameIntervalP to 1 in the Baseline branch of
nvenc_setup_h264_config() and warn if the user (or preset) had asked
for B-frames. The later has_b_frames assignment then sees the corrected
value and leaves avctx->has_b_frames at 0.

Fixes #22727.

Signed-off-by: Diego de Souza <[email protected]>


>From fc45107d5935b00da4ff97c8ba7389ceb9583d98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Diego de Souza <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 16:05:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] avcodec/nvenc: force frameIntervalP=1 for H.264 Baseline
 profile

H.264 Baseline profile cannot contain B-frames, but the NVENC preset
defaults and the max_b_frames-derived frameIntervalP override leave
frameIntervalP > 1 when -profile:v baseline is requested. The
unconditional check at the end of nvenc_setup_encoder() then sets
has_b_frames = 2, which propagates to the muxer and causes
compute_muxer_pkt_fields() to back-calculate
DTS = PTS - (delay + 1) * frame_duration. The resulting bitstream
contains no B-frames, yet every packet has a spurious 3-frame PTS/DTS
gap, breaking MPEG-TS/HLS output and DTS-based players.

This patch forces frameIntervalP to 1 in the Baseline branch of
nvenc_setup_h264_config() and warn if the user (or preset) had asked
for B-frames. The later has_b_frames assignment then sees the corrected
value and leaves avctx->has_b_frames at 0.

Fixes #22727.

Signed-off-by: Diego de Souza <[email protected]>
---
 libavcodec/nvenc.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/libavcodec/nvenc.c b/libavcodec/nvenc.c
index a8dac1ebd3..7b9f7260df 100644
--- a/libavcodec/nvenc.c
+++ b/libavcodec/nvenc.c
@@ -1358,6 +1358,11 @@ static av_cold int 
nvenc_setup_h264_config(AVCodecContext *avctx)
         case NV_ENC_H264_PROFILE_BASELINE:
             cc->profileGUID = NV_ENC_H264_PROFILE_BASELINE_GUID;
             avctx->profile = AV_PROFILE_H264_BASELINE;
+            if (cc->frameIntervalP > 1) {
+                av_log(avctx, AV_LOG_WARNING,
+                       "B-frames are not supported by H.264 Baseline profile, 
disabling.\n");
+                cc->frameIntervalP = 1;
+            }
             break;
         case NV_ENC_H264_PROFILE_MAIN:
             cc->profileGUID = NV_ENC_H264_PROFILE_MAIN_GUID;
-- 
2.52.0

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