[FFmpeg-devel] Improve timecode support

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 11:32:34AM +0200, Clément Bœsch wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 01:51:10AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> [...]
> > Does this support keeping timecodes when transcoding?
> 
> I'm afraid not, you indeed need to use the -timecode option for the
> output.
> 
> > To elaborate a bit on the question
> > 
> > With private options holding the timecode, transcoding could become
> > tricky if for example the values where to be interpreted differently
> > for 2 codecs.
> > Iam not asking for transcoding support to be added just if there are
> > any expected obstacles if one wanted to add it and if changes to the
> > design could be made to avoid that.
> > 
> 
> You mean if timecode is muxed differently in the formats, it won't be easy
> to use a common way of transmitting the timecode value between source
> demuxer and destination muxer when transcoding?
> 
> I guess I completely ignored that part. If we need to transmit customized
> crafted data between the demuxer and the muxer, what can are the different
> ways to achieve that? Should we use the AVPacket side data?

side data is an option but its not really an alternative to this
patchset as it solves a somewhat different problem


> 
> Also, the mpeg encoder might be a specific case; we are mostly dealing
> with formats with the timecode (right now mxf and dv, maybe gxf later),
> but there is the exception of the mpeg encoder, see patch 2).
> 
> After a discussion on IRC, it seems there is no obvious way to do that,
> and I can't tell how the API will change in that matter. So basically,
> what do you propose, or what do you prefer right now given the current
> API?

I think unless someone else had a great idea we should go forward with
the existing patchset and apply things after review or timeout

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