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

[Peter Gavin]

Wouldn't mplayer -vo rawvideo -vf harddup have the same effect, then?

Pete

On 8/24/06, Loren Merritt <lorenm at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> 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
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