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One of the problems is that in H264 there are no strict limits on this. I see, yes that is definitely a problem in that case. For writing files however you also need the TIME, which can take an unknown amount of time to calculate. To summarize, the buffering for 30sec would potentially work (not in...

I guess I'm a little confused with this timing information. Correct me if I'm wrong: - PTS (presentation time stamp): time instant at which the corresponding packet should be presented to the viewer (i.e. it must be decoded by that time). - CTS (composition time stamp): time instant at which the cor...

The problem is that we need to internally map that to a time in the same timebase of the presentation time. VLC is obviously capable of playing the live stream. How does it determine the DTS then? Does it have to? We are talking about a codec that is described in a 1000 page document. I thought the...

Thank you very much for your answer, DJ. I'm not sure I understand every bit of the decoding process, since I'm fairly new in the field (i.e. thanks for your patience in advance :) ). Here are some more questions: How does the playback works, then? Doesn't the h264 de-packetizer need to extract deco...

Wei,

I am in the same situation (i.e. want to write to MP4 directly from H.264 w/o transcoding). Did you have any success in figuring out what was missing in the code?

Thanks