[FFmpeg-user] Timing control?
Spencer Graves
spencer.graves at prodsyse.com
Thu Mar 20 20:29:32 CET 2014
What's the preferred method for controlling the timing of
individual frames?
This list previously recommended the concat demuxer with a
control file (thread "[FFmpeg-user] concatenate png files for different
durations?"). Unfortunately, that failed to control the timing as
advertised: A toy example played "duration 6" in less than 1 second
followed by 5 seconds for a frame at "duration 1". (I want to mate
frames with audio timed to hundreths of a second.) I've not been able to
control the times even if all frames have officially the same time.
Other posts suggest that I'm not the only person with this problem.
It looks to me like there is a bug in the FFmpeg concat demuxer.
However, another question asked about keyframes. Researching that led me
to documentation saying that, "forcing too many keyframes is very
harmful for the lookahead algorithms of certain encoders: using
fixed-GOP options or similar would be more efficient."
(http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html)
Suggestions?
Thanks,
Spencer
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