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diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst index 9320a244ac..edbbc35419 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/options.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst @@ -2048,11 +2048,21 @@ Demuxer Run the demuxer in a separate thread, and let it prefetch a certain amount of packets (default: no). +``--demuxer-readahead-secs=N`` + If ``--demuxer-thread`` is enabled, this controls how much the demuxer + should buffer ahead in seconds (default: 0.2). As long as no packet has + a timestamp difference higher than the readahead amount relative to the + last packet returned to the decoder, the demuxer keeps reading. + + (This value tends to be fuzzy, because many file formats don't store linear + timestamps.) + ``--demuxer-readahead-packets=N`` If ``--demuxer-thread`` is enabled, this controls how much the demuxer - should buffer ahead. If the number of packets in the packet queue exceeds - ``--demuxer-readahead-packets``, or the total number of bytes exceeds - ``--demuxer-readahead-bytes``, the thread stops reading ahead. + should buffer ahead. As long as the number of packets in the packet queue + doesn't exceed ``--demuxer-readahead-packets``, and the total number of + bytes doesn't exceed ``--demuxer-readahead-bytes``, the thread keeps + reading ahead. Note that if you set these options near the maximum, you might get a packet queue overflow warning. |