[linux-dvb] Re: play_iframe() improvement?

[Guido Fiala <gfiala@s.netic.de>]

On Saturday,  1. December 2001 19:35, you wrote:
> Klaus Schmidinger writes:
>  > I was thinking about the method by which play_iframe() (in dvb.c)
>  > attempts to display a still picture. Apparently it has to send
>  > the same I-frame until 400000 byte have been transmitted to fill
>  > up the decoder's buffer.
>  >
>  > Now I read in the AV711x data sheet that in "Scan" mode the decoder
>  >
>  >   "Searches for the first I picture, decodes it, displays it, then
>  > continues searching for next I picture and repeats"
>  >
>  > this sounds as if it then would not be necessary to fill up the buffer,
>  > but rather as if the decoder would display an I-frame as soon as it has
>  > received one. Unfortunately, despite several attempts to implement this,
>  > I didn't have any success. Could one of the driver developers please
>  > comment on this and let me know if I'm completely wrong here?
>
> No, you are completely right.
> I also have no idea how to force the decoder to start decoding
> immediately. I just does not do it.

Maybe just silly:
How about the last frames in a stream - will they ever be shown then?
If yes - how about tricking the decoder into believing those frames are all 
"last-frames" ?


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