[MPlayer-users] x264 encoding/matroska/etc.

[Loren Merritt]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Peter Gavin wrote:

> Hmm, now that I've thought about it some, I don't think it will work,
> but I'll try it anyways.  The raw 264 stream won't have any sync
> information.
>
> I was thinking that there should be some standard way to have an
> encoder output the sync info into a file, for later use while muxing.
> There isn't anything like this, is there?  I'm not sure exactly how
> this works, but the container formats have a kind of timestamp
> associated with every few frames, right?  This timestamp wouldn't be
> present in a raw 264 stream. But if there was a way to output the
> timestamps in a text file, it wouldn't matter.

avi doesn't have timestamps either, only frame numbers. So as long as you 
use -vf harddup (prevents null frames), you don't lose any information by 
demuxing.

--Loren Merritt