Difference between StreamTime and HardwareReferenceTimeStamp

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Jules Davis

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Difference between StreamTime and HardwareReferenceTimeStamp

PostFri Aug 04, 2017 9:50 am

In the DeckLink SDK, when a video frame arrives, there are two functions that return a timestamp:

IDeckLinkVideoInputFrame::GetStreamTime - returns the time and duration of a captured video frame for
a given timescale.

IDeckLinkVideoInputFrame::GetHardwareReferenceTimestamp - returns frame time and frame duration for
a given timescale.

What is the difference between these two functions?

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Jules
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Andres Gonzalez

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Re: Difference between StreamTime and HardwareReferenceTimeS

PostThu Aug 31, 2017 6:04 pm

I would like to bump this question because I also have wondered what the difference is.

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Cameron Nichols

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Re: Difference between StreamTime and HardwareReferenceTimeS

PostMon Sep 11, 2017 5:20 am

Hi Jules/Andres,

To clarify:
IDeckLinkVideoInputFrame::GetStreamTime method will return time as per BMDTimeScale, but as a reference to the number of input frames. eg if Time Scale is 30000, and video mode 1080i59.94, then GetStreamTime will return 0, 1001, 2002, 3003, ... [1]

IDeckLinkVideoInputFrame::GetHardwareReferenceTimestamp method also returns time in the BMDTimeScale format, however this will be the system clock when the video frame is fully captured by hardware.

Regards
Cameron

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[1] 2.7.2 Time Representation

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