[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC/PATCH] matroska timestamps not always pts

[Uoti Urpala]

On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 23:11 +0100, elupus wrote:
> Apperently the timestamps stored in matroska container can mean different 
> things. For native tracks they normally mean pts, while for others this 
> isn't always the case.
> 
> The case i'm trying to nail here is the ms compatibility case. In this case, 
> timestamps should correspond to the frame numbers in avi. This patch makes 
> demuxer only set the correct timestamp (dts/pts) in the packet.

Does some spec say they "should correspond" to frame numbers? Or are you
only saying this because you've seen (invalid?) files generated by
someone which do this?