Fallback to DTS if PTS info doesn't exist

src/torchcodec/_core/SingleStreamDecoder.cpp

@@ -26,6 +26,20 @@ int64_t secondsToClosestPts(double seconds, const AVRational& timeBase) {
       std::round(seconds * timeBase.den / timeBase.num));
 }
 
+// Some videos aren't properly encoded and do not specify pts values for
+// packets, and thus for frames. Unset values correspond to INT64_MIN. When that
+// happens, we fallback to the dts value which hopefully exists and is correct.
+// Accessing AVFrames and AVPackets's pts values should **always** go through
+// the helpers below. Then, the "pts" fields in our structs like FrameInfo.pts
+// should be interpreted as "pts if it exists, dts otherwise".
+int64_t getPtsOrDts(ReferenceAVPacket& packet) {
+  return packet->pts == INT64_MIN ? packet->dts : packet->pts;
+}
+
+int64_t getPtsOrDts(const UniqueAVFrame& avFrame) {
+  return avFrame->pts == INT64_MIN ? avFrame->pkt_dts : avFrame->pts;
+}
+
 } // namespace
 
 // --------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -223,16 +237,16 @@ void SingleStreamDecoder::scanFileAndUpdateMetadataAndIndex() {
     int streamIndex = packet->stream_index;
     auto& streamMetadata = containerMetadata_.allStreamMetadata[streamIndex];
     streamMetadata.minPtsFromScan = std::min(
-        streamMetadata.minPtsFromScan.value_or(INT64_MAX), packet->pts);
+        streamMetadata.minPtsFromScan.value_or(INT64_MAX), getPtsOrDts(packet));
     streamMetadata.maxPtsFromScan = std::max(
         streamMetadata.maxPtsFromScan.value_or(INT64_MIN),
-        packet->pts + packet->duration);
+        getPtsOrDts(packet) + packet->duration);
     streamMetadata.numFramesFromScan =
         streamMetadata.numFramesFromScan.value_or(0) + 1;
 
     // Note that we set the other value in this struct, nextPts, only after
     // we have scanned all packets and sorted by pts.
-    FrameInfo frameInfo = {packet->pts};
+    FrameInfo frameInfo = {getPtsOrDts(packet)};
     if (packet->flags & AV_PKT_FLAG_KEY) {
       frameInfo.isKeyFrame = true;
       streamInfos_[streamIndex].keyFrames.push_back(frameInfo);
@@ -493,8 +507,9 @@ FrameOutput SingleStreamDecoder::getNextFrame() {
 FrameOutput SingleStreamDecoder::getNextFrameInternal(
     std::optional<torch::Tensor> preAllocatedOutputTensor) {
   validateActiveStream();
-  UniqueAVFrame avFrame = decodeAVFrame(
-      [this](const UniqueAVFrame& avFrame) { return avFrame->pts >= cursor_; });
+  UniqueAVFrame avFrame = decodeAVFrame([this](const UniqueAVFrame& avFrame) {
+    return getPtsOrDts(avFrame) >= cursor_;
+  });
   return convertAVFrameToFrameOutput(avFrame, preAllocatedOutputTensor);
 }
 
@@ -630,9 +645,10 @@ FrameOutput SingleStreamDecoder::getFramePlayedAt(double seconds) {
   UniqueAVFrame avFrame =
       decodeAVFrame([seconds, this](const UniqueAVFrame& avFrame) {
         StreamInfo& streamInfo = streamInfos_[activeStreamIndex_];
-        double frameStartTime = ptsToSeconds(avFrame->pts, streamInfo.timeBase);
+        double frameStartTime =
+            ptsToSeconds(getPtsOrDts(avFrame), streamInfo.timeBase);
         double frameEndTime = ptsToSeconds(
-            avFrame->pts + getDuration(avFrame), streamInfo.timeBase);
+            getPtsOrDts(avFrame) + getDuration(avFrame), streamInfo.timeBase);
         if (frameStartTime > seconds) {
           // FFMPEG seeked past the frame we are looking for even though we
           // set max_ts to be our needed timestamp in avformat_seek_file()
@@ -859,8 +875,8 @@ AudioFramesOutput SingleStreamDecoder::getFramesPlayedInRangeAudio(
     try {
       UniqueAVFrame avFrame =
           decodeAVFrame([startPts, stopPts](const UniqueAVFrame& avFrame) {
-            return startPts < avFrame->pts + getDuration(avFrame) &&
-                stopPts > avFrame->pts;
+            return startPts < getPtsOrDts(avFrame) + getDuration(avFrame) &&
+                stopPts > getPtsOrDts(avFrame);
           });
       auto frameOutput = convertAVFrameToFrameOutput(avFrame);
       if (!firstFramePtsSeconds.has_value()) {
@@ -1130,7 +1146,7 @@ UniqueAVFrame SingleStreamDecoder::decodeAVFrame(
   // haven't received as frames. Eventually we will either hit AVERROR_EOF from
   // av_receive_frame() or the user will have seeked to a different location in
   // the file and that will flush the decoder.
-  streamInfo.lastDecodedAvFramePts = avFrame->pts;
+  streamInfo.lastDecodedAvFramePts = getPtsOrDts(avFrame);
   streamInfo.lastDecodedAvFrameDuration = getDuration(avFrame);
 
   return avFrame;
@@ -1147,7 +1163,8 @@ FrameOutput SingleStreamDecoder::convertAVFrameToFrameOutput(
   FrameOutput frameOutput;
   auto& streamInfo = streamInfos_[activeStreamIndex_];
   frameOutput.ptsSeconds = ptsToSeconds(
-      avFrame->pts, formatContext_->streams[activeStreamIndex_]->time_base);
+      getPtsOrDts(avFrame),
+      formatContext_->streams[activeStreamIndex_]->time_base);
   frameOutput.durationSeconds = ptsToSeconds(
       getDuration(avFrame),
       formatContext_->streams[activeStreamIndex_]->time_base);

src/torchcodec/_core/_metadata.py

@@ -142,6 +142,9 @@ def average_fps(self) -> Optional[float]:
             self.end_stream_seconds_from_content is None
             or self.begin_stream_seconds_from_content is None
             or self.num_frames is None
+            # Should never happen, but prevents ZeroDivisionError:
+            or self.end_stream_seconds_from_content
+            == self.begin_stream_seconds_from_content
         ):
             return self.average_fps_from_header
         return self.num_frames / (

test/test_decoders.py

@@ -986,6 +986,47 @@ def get_some_frames(decoder):
             assert_frames_equal(ref_frame3, frames[1].data)
             assert_frames_equal(ref_frame5, frames[2].data)
 
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("seek_mode", ("exact", "approximate"))
+    def test_pts_to_dts_fallback(self, seek_mode):
+        # Non-regression test for
+        # https://github.com/pytorch/torchcodec/issues/677 and
+        # https://github.com/pytorch/torchcodec/issues/676.
+        # More accurately, this is a non-regression test for videos which do
+        # *not* specify pts values (all pts values are N/A and set to
+        # INT64_MIN), but specify *dts* value - which we fallback to.
+        #
+        # The test video we have is from
+        # https://huggingface.co/datasets/raushan-testing-hf/videos-test/blob/main/sample_video_2.avi
+        # We can't check it into the repo due to potential licensing issues, so
+        # we have to unconditionally skip this test.#
+        # TODO: encode a video with no pts values to unskip this test. Couldn't
+        # find a way to do that with FFmpeg's CLI, but this should be doable
+        # once we have our own video encoder.
+        pytest.skip(reason="TODO: Need video with no pts values.")
+
+        path = "/home/nicolashug/Downloads/sample_video_2.avi"
+        decoder = VideoDecoder(path, seek_mode=seek_mode)
+        metadata = decoder.metadata
+
+        assert metadata.average_fps == pytest.approx(29.916667)
+        assert metadata.duration_seconds_from_header == 9.02507
+        assert metadata.duration_seconds == 9.02507
+        assert metadata.begin_stream_seconds_from_content == (
+            None if seek_mode == "approximate" else 0
+        )
+        assert metadata.end_stream_seconds_from_content == (
+            None if seek_mode == "approximate" else 9.02507
+        )
+
+        assert decoder[0].shape == (3, 240, 320)
+        decoder[10].shape == (3, 240, 320)
+        decoder.get_frame_at(2).data.shape == (3, 240, 320)
+        decoder.get_frames_at([2, 10]).data.shape == (2, 3, 240, 320)
+        decoder.get_frame_played_at(9).data.shape == (3, 240, 320)
+        decoder.get_frames_played_at([2, 4]).data.shape == (2, 3, 240, 320)
+        with pytest.raises(AssertionError, match="not equal"):
+            torch.testing.assert_close(decoder[0], decoder[10])
+
 
 class TestAudioDecoder:
     @pytest.mark.parametrize("asset", (NASA_AUDIO, NASA_AUDIO_MP3, SINE_MONO_S32))