[FFmpeg-user] Noticed TimeStamp Issue When Muxing Raw h.264 into MKV

[Andrey Utkin]

среда, 29 февраля 2012 г. пользователь luke wilson <lukec.wilson86 at gmail.com>
писал:
> To Whomever,
>
> I hope I'm in the right place with this. Anyway I noticed that you can not
> mux a raw h.264 streams into MKV because of the lack of a TimeStamp.
> Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe this error(see error below) is due
to
> raw h.264 streams not containing any specific timestamp information.
>  If this is the case I believe I have a proof of concept for creating
> timestamps
>  data for a MKV mux.
>
> Proof Of Concept:
> 1. Get FPS from (Annex E) VUI   FPS = time_scale / num_unit_in_tick * 2
>    (I know this isn't perfect but it gets it close enough)
> 2. Take stream within each given cluster in MKV and count frames
>    (There are a few variations)
> 3. Create a TimeStamp for Segments based on frame count against FPS
>
> I don't think this is a perfect science but if you use libx264 and ffmpeg
to
> encode the raw h264 file I think it should be close enough that playback
> on directshow will not be the wiser (it works for me). I think you might
> be doing something like this for mp4 muxing.
>
> Please let me know if I am misunderstanding something. If I'm not mis-
> understanding something let me know if you would like me to build this out
> for the community. FFMPEG has helped me out a lot so I would like to
> give back to the community if possible.
>
> Error:
> "[matroska @ 01386340] Can't write packet with unknown timestamp
> av_interleaved_write_frame(): Invalid argument"
>
> -Luke
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Andrey Utkin