[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] movenc timecode track support

[Baptiste Coudurier]

Hi

Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 06:30:51PM +0100, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 04:46:11PM +0100, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
>>>> Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> $subject. Preliminary support for creating timecode track. Need to
>>>>> figure out a clean way to supply referenced track (video track).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Any problem with that patch ?
>>> what good does it do? / what is a timecode track good for?
>>>
>> Useful to specify start time of the media, used in editing systems
>> (Final Cut). Mov timestamps always start from 0. Basically same use as
>> mpeg2 gop headers timecode or h264 sei picture timing.
> 
> except that these dont contain things with names like color, font face
> graphics mode, ... what the hell do these do in that "timecode track"?!
> 

You can display time code in quicktime player, and those defines how to.

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