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    Support H.264 SEI recovery points. · 33778d4d
    Steinar H. Gunderson authored
    H.264 SEI recovery points are put at frames in the stream that are not
    (necessarily) keyframes, but that mark “if you decode the next N frames, you
    will have a [perfectly or approximately] valid picture no matter what your
    starting point was”. In particular, this is needed to decode streams encoded
    with Periodic Intra Refresh (e.g. --sout-x264-intra-refresh true), at least if
    you don't see the beginning of the stream, e.g. tuning into a multicast stream.
    This may also help with some kinds of streams from AVCHD cameras that use
    similar techniques.
    
    One could argue that this functionality should live inside libavcodec instead,
    but given that VLC does its own H.264 depacketization, this seems to be the
    best place. I've tested it with streaming over UDP, and it seems to work fine.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>
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