[Libav-user] Frame drop

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Bivas Bhattacharya <b.bivas at ...> writes:

> I am trying to simulate the situation where some percentage 
> of I P B frames are getting dropped or corrupted. I want to 
> observe effect on video quality.
> 
> Is there any way to create this situation just by some trick 
> as an user of ffmpeg?
> 
> If not can anyone give me some hints how should I proceed 
> and which file should I look into.

While your question is missing most necessary information 
I believe you can abuse the image2 muxer to create the 
frames that you can then either remove or damage before 
using the image2 demuxer (or cat) to recreate a media file.

Carl Eugen