[FFmpeg-devel] [Bug] Problem on remuxing AVC in mkv to mp4, how to fix it?

[Aurelien Jacobs]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 03:09:18PM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:

I guess your reply wasn't intended only for me ?

> On 8/4/2009 3:00 PM, Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
>> This is already known as issue807 [1].
>>
>>> Since matroska does not provide dts (mp4 does), ffmpeg assumes dts = pts, which is completely wrong if b-frames are used.
>>> Is that where the problem is and can anybody give suggestions on how to fix that?
>>
>> IIRC the problem is that FFmpeg is missing a h264 parser that would
>> generate dts for streams which don't have it.
>
> FFmpeg already has a h264_parser, it does not work with MKV bitstream  
> however.

I know we have a h264_parser but AFAIK it is not able to generate any dts.
Is Matroska the only format storing h264 without dts ?

Aurel