Hey Daniel, actually that simple explanation was exactly what I needed. Thanks for that!
On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Troy Sobotka <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2017, 1:30 PM Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> But for the common case of traversing the file in order, just reading >> every frame sequentially (no seeks, except to the very next frame), it will >> work? Or are there still circumstances where that also doesn't work? >> > > Fails. > > Seeking sequentially should work for strictly P frame based codecs, but > IIRC it failed due to the PTS code in some instances. > > It fails immediately for B frames as it obviously doesn't have the future > I frame to decode. > > Both cases are extremely common, given that a majority of DSLR vendors use > P frame compression by default. > > With respect, > TJS > >> > _______________________________________________ > Oiio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org > >
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