[mpeg2] Re: kfir latency revisited

["John A. Tamplin" <jat@jaet.org>]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Rob Morris wrote:

> Can't believe I said two I frames.
>
> P's are predicted from I, then B's are calculated from P and I (or 2 P's).
> Consequently, we must have the 4rth frame before we can decode the 2nd in
> the sequence you specified. Hence the latency of at least 3 frames.

Right, and if you are looking at the total encode->decode latency, that is
3 frames for each for the measured 6 frames.

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