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    Fix glitching at start of stream playback · b9883cb9
    Alex Woods authored
    This patch fixes a problem that occurs at the start of playback of MPEG2
    streams.  The symptom is that an initial good frame will display and
    then the video appears to skip back a frame or two and some
    macroblocking is observed. The stream then plays correctly. This is
    really obvious when switching between SAPed multicast streams, where
    you're jumping right in to a lot of movement and probably not starting
    with an I frame.
    
    The issue appears to be some code introduced way back in 2004 (commit
    eaefb850) which resubmits data to the
    video codec. The commit notes suggest it was to avoid dropping the first
    I frame, but I see no obviously lost I frames after removing the code
    with my test samples. Presumably this was a work-around for a libavcodec
    issue that is no longer required.
    
    Therefore, this patch basically just reverts the 2004 commit in its
    current form.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIlkka Ollakka <ileoo@videolan.org>
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