What does Dropped (discontinued) mean?

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CrazyRedElephant
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What does Dropped (discontinued) mean?

Postby CrazyRedElephant » 22 May 2020 23:56

Hi. What does the "Dropped (discontinued)" value in Tools -> Media Information -> Statistics mean? I couldn't find anything about this in the official wiki... For some reason, I always have "1" there in the beginning of the videos that I remux to .mp4 with ffmpeg... Thanks.

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Re: What does Dropped (discontinued) mean?

Postby CrazyRedElephant » 02 Jul 2020 01:02

Anyone? It's such a basic question.

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Re: What does Dropped (discontinued) mean?

Postby chubinou » 02 Jul 2020 09:25

Hi,

Media streams are usually organized in timestamped packets telling when to decode or display the pictures, the time of theses packets usually increase with a regular increment. if you encounter a hole between packets or packets that goes back in time you'll have a discontinuity. This can be due to many reason (packet loss for instance)


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