What does Dropped (discontinued) mean?

[CrazyRedElephant]

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.

[CrazyRedElephant]

Anyone? It's such a basic question.

[chubinou]

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)