[Ffmpeg-devel] open/closed gops

[Osama Khan]

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Hi All,

In mpeg(2/4) encoding, does ffmpeg produce open or closed gops? And if it
produces open gops, then Im assuming that during encoding, it encodes
the first I-Frame of a new GOP before the last B-frame of the last GOP
 during consecutive calls to avcodec_encode_frame() and it stores the
new I-Frame in its internal buffers to help it in encoding the
subsequent B-Frame? Is this assumption correct?

Thanks!
-Osama