On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 10:52 +0200, Ján Kolár wrote:
> Dňa 26. 10. 2010 16:32, Tomas Härdin  wrote / napísal(a):
> > On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 16:20 +0200, Ján Kolár wrote:
> >> When generating mpeg-ts stream using ffmpeg, I have observed, that PCR
> >> marks are spaced too far apart one from another. Typical PCR period is
> >> about 60 - 70 ms which is a way too much. Another problem is that this
> >> value considerable varies at some moments. Especially on dynamic scenes
> >> I have seen extraordinarily big PCR periods ranging to several hundreds
> >> of milliseconds. Because of this I have disordered timing in output
> >> module which sends created stream to network QAM modulator
> >> (http://www.dektec.com/Products/IP/DTE-3114/). My output buffer can
> >> accomodate max. 250 ms block of data. I have suspicion that this is a
> >> ffmpeg bug, but not sure. Has this happened to someone?
> >>
> >> Jan
> > I posted a couple of patches related to PCR generation a few weeks ago.
> > They have not been OK'd to commit yet though. Do try them out since
> > feedback on them would be good.
> >
> > The following thread deals with PCR jitter and accuracy improvement:
> >
> > https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2010-September/097856.html
> >
> > The latest version of that patch is at:
> > http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2010-October/098479.html
> >
> >
> > This thread deals with forcing PCR to be written more often, at the cost
> > of some overhead. It is probably closer to what you want:
> >
> > https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2010-October/098484.html
> >
> > /Tomas
> >
> I applied both of your patches. Its awesome that PCR period is now fixed 
> to 20 ms. PCR accuracy is not critical in my case so maybe this part of 
> first patch was not essential. But PCR drift could be problem regarding 
> long-term stability. I tested my program whole night, all was OK when I 
> arrived to work this morning. From my point of view both patches are 
> functioning.

That sounds awesome. So far I've been waiting for word from other people
with broadcast equipment to which I've sent some sample files. This
sounds very promising.

> Only problem I encountered is warning message dts < pcr. 
> The effect of this was non-smoothness of video sequence. But that can be 
> avoided by setting AVFormatContext::max_delay to about 50000 (50000 
> microseconds = 50 milliseconds).
> 
> Jan

Yes, I had a similar problem with my system until I noticed ffmpeg.c
sets max_delay to 0.7 by default. Its default value is zero, which is
too low.

/Tomas

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