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Swap from DTS order to PTS order

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Hi,
Thanks for your clear and deep explanations, I finnaly understood a lot of dark items in ffmeg !!

Still I have a silly question from the hello world example:

  • you read sequentially from the stream de each AVPacket ()
  • each AV Packet contains one AVFrame that you obtain using the codec
  • but in the output, you have packets and frames sorted by increasing pts, not as they are arranged in the stream.

The question is (actually I have two questions):

  • Who is sorting the packets/frames ?
  • To render a frame, we need another frames rendered, where are they stored? (if they are, if they are not, seems very innefficient).

Thanks again for sharing your knowledge. Regards,
Willy

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The issue refers to the tutorial's hello-world example and asks about AVPacket/AVFrame ordering, PTS/DTS, and frame storage. Start by reading that example and the relevant FFmpeg/libav decoding flow. Done would mean documenting which component handles ordering and where frames needed for rendering are kept.

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Tech stack
c
Domain
audio-video-rtc, documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
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Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
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