> IIRC you need it if you want to attach any private data that should follow
> along with the frame through the decoder frame reordering and all that -
> normally this only is done for the pkt_pts field (and this is what most
> people need), but in case you need to track more data than just the pts, you
> can put it here (and if necessary, the int64_t should fit a pointer as
> well).

It's useful for passing through an "original timestamp" if you need to
rebase your first frame to have a timestamp of zero.
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