On Sun, 7 Feb 2021, 17:29 Nicolas George, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Kieran Kunhya (12021-02-07):
> > You do care because different sources generated either by a PC or
> different
> > physical cameras will drift. E.g at 25fps after one hour you might get
> > 90000 frames from one and 90002 or whatever frames from another etc. And
> of
> > course the timestamps will drift slowly. Unfortunately you seem to share
> > the same fundamental misunderstandings as the kernel developers.
>
> Your reasoning is backwards: different time bases is precisely the
> reason we need the option of timestamps with a common reference frame.
>
> With the situation you describe, the application that captures the two
> cameras can detect that one is faster than the other and duplicate or
> skip frames as necessary. Without a common timestamp, it is not
> possible.
>

Yes and thus you need a monotonic clock as a starting point for proper
filtering. Ffmpeg has neither.

Kieran


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