On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 14:13 +0400, Kulti wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Tomas Härdin 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 20:11 +0400, Kulti wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Tomas Härdin <[email protected]
> > >wrote:
> > >
> > > > Please don't top post on this list. It makes it harder for people to
> > > > read it.
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 17:02 +0400, Kulti wrote:
> > > > > Hm... Thanks, I'm use flv-container, but how to set VFR? It's mean,
> > that
> > > > I
> > > > > need to modify AVCodecContext.time_base before encoding every frames?
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Tomas Härdin <
> > [email protected]
> > > > >wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 13:36 +0400, Kulti wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi, all.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I have a webcam and need to transcode mjpeg to any formats, but
> > > > sometime
> > > > > > > webcam lagged and fps fall down. Can ffmpeg atuo fill dropped
> > frames
> > > > to
> > > > > > > constantly fps?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Why do you want constant fps? Just use a container that handles VFR
> > > > > > (avi, flv, mov etc.).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Anyway, assuming the frames are timestamped correctly ffmpeg should
> > > > > > behave correctly. If not, try forcing constant framerate with -r.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > /Tomas
> > > > > >
> > > >
> > > > FLV has a fixed time base of 1 kHz, so it's always VFR. In other cases,
> > > > like AVI, you can set time_base to be less than or equal to the inverse
> > > > of the maximum fps.
> > > >
> > > > In other words, if you know your camera can't deliver more than 50 fps
> > > > you can set time_base to 1/50, 1/123, 1/10000 or whatever. In the
> > > > specific case of AVI you shouldn't set it too low though, since it pads
> > > > with empty packets for the "missing" time stamps (IIRC something like
> > > > 39*16 = 624 B overhead if you mux 25 fps with a time base of 1 kHz).
> > FLV
> > > > does not have this problem though.
> > > >
> > > > Hope that helps :)
> > > >
> > > > /Tomas
> > > >
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> > > Sorry for top-post... and thanks for your help.
> > >
> > > So, I set time_base to fixed value 1/25 (that I get from AVCodecContext
> > for
> > > mjpeg-decoder). Then I added timer and frame-counter before
> > > av_write_frame(). I see, that fps is 19-21. But I need live-streaming.
> > So, I
> > > hardcoded time_base to 1/20, and all works fine before webcam is not lag,
> > > but after fall down fps to 15 transcoding process broken.
> > >
> > > Yes, I understand, that must be working for transcoding into file, but I
> > > need real-time transoding for live streaming. I can't see any way instead
> > > inserting frames, when some drops...
> >
> > What you do is convert the current time to the stream's time base, and
> > stick that value in as the packet's DTS. Sort of like this:
> >
> > //remember what the time was when the program started
> > int64_t t0 = get_microseconds_time(); //replace with whatever function
> > is suitable
> >
> > ...
> > //for each AVPacket
> > int64_t t = get_microseconds_time();
> > pkt->dts = av_rescale_q(t - t0, AV_TIME_BASE_Q, st->time_base);
> > av_write_frame(...);
> >
> > That seconds line converts your zero-centered times from microseconds to
> > the stream's time base. This means if the camera suddenly slows down a
> > bit, the DTS value will have gaps. This is fine as long as the muxer can
> > handle VFR (such as AVI and FLV).
> >
> > /Tomas
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> Thanks!
> 
> I'm not familiar with pts, dts etc. May be you can advise me any docs?
> 
> In my application I already have rescale for pts:
> avPacket->pts = av_rescale_q(codedFrame->pts, pCodecCtx->time_base,
> pVideoStream->time_base);
> 
> and I've added rescale for dts too:
> avPacket->dts = av_rescale_q(getTimeMicroSeconds() -
> startEncodingTimeMicroSeconds, AV_TIME_BASE_Q, pVideoStream->time_base);
> 
> but after any seconds I've received error message:
> st:0 error, pts < dts
> 
> So, I added following code:
> if( avPacket->pts < avPacket->dts )
>   avPacket->pts = avPacket->dts;
> 
> Is it right way? Now it works about 50 minutes and other error displayed:
> st:0 error, non monotone timestamps 2885736 >= -1385734
> 
> As I understand from ffmpeg sources, it's meaning, that stream's dts >=
> packet's dts, but I have not any idea to fix them.

What I do is that I only set pts. libavformat will generate the dts
values by sorting the pts:es and some other magic. So try setting only
pts, and set it to the rescaled real time (microseconds etc.).

/Tomas

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