[MPlayer-dev-eng] tv input problems and partial solutions

[Paul Ortyl]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 08:46:19PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > > What does mencoder need from input stream to get proper A-V sync???
> > > > Maybe some timestamps???
> > > it uses timestamps now
> > 
> > Are you sure, that tvi_v4l module passes the information about timestamps to
> > mencoder and non-time-uniform frame sampling is corrected???
> > 
> 
> no, only the BSD version of TV interface passes timestamps.
> the linux v4l on eis outdated, it does not pass timestamps, so a-v sycn will
> be broken if a single frame is dropped or tv/dsp nominal rate differs a bit
> from the real rate
> 

OK, I thought so...  Through which interface should the timestamps be
passed?  or where is the description (the sources seem to have very little
comments...).

Regards,

	Paul

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