[mythtv] [PATCH] Partial fix for mythtranscode segfault

[Geoffrey Hausheer]

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 16:37:39 +0100, "Kenneth Aafløy" said:
> On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 15:41, Geoffrey Hausheer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 00:31:59 -0500, "Isaac Richards" said:
> > > On Monday 01 December 2003 05:59 pm, Geoffrey Hausheer wrote:
> > > > The best option I can think of is to not clear lastvpts on a
> > > > fast-forward, but that may cause some other issues, and i'm not familliar
> > > > enough with the code to know what they are.  Can someone pick this up and
> > > > run with it?  If not, the patch I posted will work fine for the
> > > > transcoder, but I'm not sure what the ramifications would be to other
> > > > video consumers.
> > > 
> > > Hmm..  _could_ try to generate a dummy value, based on the previous value
> > > and 
> > > how far the seek was..  Rewinding would need something similar, I'd
> > > think.
> > > 
> > Need to be careful, as we need to be monotonically increasing.  So if we
> > guess to far, we don't solve the problem.
> 
> While looking at avformatdecoder.cpp:
> 
> There is a lock around avcodec_decode_video, but not around
> avcodec_decode_audio?
> 
> lastapts/temppts is calculated, shouldn't pkt->pts be used if available?
> 
> If the stream has b-frames, every non-b-frame will receive the previous
> value of a non-b-frame?
> 
>                    long long temppts = pts;
> 
>                     if (context->has_b_frames && mpa_pic.pict_type !=
> FF_B_TYPE)
>                     {
>                         temppts = video_last_P_pts;
>                         video_last_P_pts = pts;
>                     }
> 
>                     if (temppts != 0)
>                         lastvpts = temppts;
>                     else
>                         temppts = lastvpts;

You may be right that we can use the audio frame timecodes, but note that
lastvpts gets incremented by 1000/fps each frame, so each video frame is
currently gauranteed to get a monotonically increasing value (unless
lastvpts gets reset to 0 as happens here)

.Geoff