[Ffmpeg-devel] Differences between mencoderand ffmpeg when encoding using x264

[Måns Rullgård]

Erik Slagter said:
> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 13:13 +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> >> It gets better.  That string is written at the start of the bitstream.
>> Just
>> >> run "strings" on the output files.
>> >
>> > Isn't that a waste of space?
>>
>> What's a dozen bytes in a multimegabyte file?
>
> Well, personally I don't really care, but be warned to take cover for
> the flames of dick f. ;-) ;-)
>
> Does h264 (nal?!) have some sort of "comment/remark" object?

Yes.  An SEI message with payload type 5 can contain anything.

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