[MPlayer-users] ASF files with YUV4MPEG

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 11:04:14AM -0400, Matthew W. Miller wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 03:46:12PM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> >On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 12:33:47 -0700 (PDT) Jonathan Bartlett 
> ><johnnyb at eskimo.com> wrote:
> >> I have an ASF file that I'm trying to re-encode into MPEG1 Video.  I'm
> >> using yuv4mpeg to work on it. ... these files don't have a "frame
> >> rate", they just have a delay on each frame for the period it's
> >> supposed to be up for.
> >Please use -ofps
> 
> He can't!  -ofps is an mencoder option.  The only way to output in
> yuv4mpeg format is with mplayer -vo yuv4mpeg, which is suboptimal for
> twiddly-frame-rate formats like ASF because it doesn't duplicate/toss
> out frames to achieve a steady frame rate.  Yet another wishlist item
> for mplayer-G2, as if A'rpi isn't sick to death of them already. :)

Actually, it's (mostly) already done. Someone just needs to write a
framerate-stabilizer filter, but G2 already allows filters to add/drop
frames, so it should be easy to write.

Rich