[Ffmpeg-devel] Minimal number of frames for valid Mpeg2-Stream?

[Colin McKellar]

On 11/10/05, Bernhard Prell <bernhard.prell at gmx.net> wrote:
> Dear ffmpeg-Gurus,
>
> Background: I am using libavcodec to generate DVD-compliant files from my
> program. It's working good for "normal" films. Now I also would like to
> generate the MPEG2 Files for the DVD-navigation-menus that can be fed to
> spumux. In fact I want to produce a mpeg file that has only one(!) frame (for
> the menu background).
> Obviously this doesn't seem to work: In the loop where I put the frames into
> the stream (in the same way as ouput_example.c) the first few iterations the
> videoPts-value stays zero and the resulting file is not playable...
> The parameters are initialized like in ffmpeg when invoking it with the
> DVD-output format.
>
> Question:
> How to do it right? :-)
> Or more specific: Is there a minimal number of frames I have to write with
> libavcodec to get a valid mpeg2 file? I already tried with GOP=0 and 1 and/or
> max_b_frames=0 and 1.
>
> I searched the web for quite some time and experimented with the parameters
> but now I'm stuck...
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
>
> Bernhard

This doesn't answer your question, but why do you want to create a 1
frame MPEG rather than a static background.