diff --git a/libavformat/utils.c b/libavformat/utils.c
index d6035d9f24..cfa9e82f3f 100644
--- a/libavformat/utils.c
+++ b/libavformat/utils.c
@@ -942,6 +942,10 @@ static void update_initial_durations(AVFormatContext *s, AVStream *st,
     AVPacketList *pktl= s->parse_queue ? s->parse_queue : s->packet_buffer;
     int64_t cur_dts= RELATIVE_TS_BASE;
 
+    if (st->skip_samples && st->codec->sample_rate && st->time_base.num)
+        cur_dts -= av_rescale_q(st->skip_samples,
+                                (AVRational){ 1, st->codec->sample_rate },
+                                st->time_base);
     if(st->first_dts != AV_NOPTS_VALUE){
         cur_dts= st->first_dts;
         for(; pktl; pktl= get_next_pkt(s, st, pktl)){