[MPlayer-users] Re: Mencoder audio pass messes up video pass

[Alban Bedel]

Hi D Richard Felker III,

on Sat, 5 Jul 2003 10:12:53 -0400 you wrote:

> While preencoding the audio is an ok idea, the whole "frameno" design
> in mencoder is fundamentally flawed and *cannot* work correctly in
> certain cases. This is because with certain files/codecs/filters, you
> don't have enough information to decide which frames to drop/duplicate
> without actually decoding the video.
Then why not fix frameno to have it decode the frames ? That shouldn't
be too hard.

> IMO the 3-pass/frameno system should be ditched, and replaced with an
> automated version of what I described above...
Except for those how are short on disk space. It is also useful as 'null'
codec.
	Albeu

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