How P frame seek support will be added in any multimedia framework

Some multimedia frameworks will have support for P frame seek. Some
frameworks wont have this support. So How can we add this support ?

For P frame seek, we can not start directly start decoding & rendering
from the P frame;
Since P frame doesnt have entire frame information, if we start
decoding & rendering from P frame, it will shows
green patches on screen and affect the user experience.


How P frame seek is supported in Directshow multimedia framework ?


For any seek timestamp, Parser will seek the I frame timestamp before
the seek timestamp.
Ex :
I frame is available in 10th second.
if the seek is done to 12th second, the Parser will fetch I frame from
10th second and give it do the decoder.

Source Filter will set IMediaSample's SetPreroll() as true. The
decoder will decode the frame,get necessary information and wont give
it to the renderer.

Once the timestamp reached the seek timestamp, Parser will set the
setPreroll as false, then frame will starts rendering.


OpenCORE:

In OpenCORE's frame have an option to set DoNotRender flag. If we set
this flag, it wont render the given frame.

In Generic, In any multimedia framework,

if we are calling seek to any timestamp, Upto seektimestamp is
reached, video and audio frames are dropped without rendering on
hardware device.In case of audio, we will have more I frames. But if
we are rendering audio alone, video takes more time to catchup
video.User might be able to observe the weird behaviour since ear is
more sensitive than eyes. In this scenario, rendering the audio also
causes the audio clock to increase. It will cause AV sync issues once
video starts rendering.

In any multimedia framework, we have to do the following steps to
do P frame seek:



1.ParserseekTo(Nearest_I_Frame to SeekTimesamp);
2.ParserRead(frame);
3.Decode(decodedAudioVideoFrame);

4. if (decodedAudioVideoFrameTimestamp < SeekTimestamp)
{
release audioVideoFrame;
}
else
render(decodedAudioVideoFrame);