[Libav-user] How to add a skip frame to a MKV file?

[Tobias Rapp]

On 25.04.2019 09:46, Seungyong Kwon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm writing a program which writes a MKV file.
> For some reason writing a packet to a file is done by calling
> av_write_frame instread of av_interleaved_write_frame which
> inserts skip frames automatically.
> 
> For an AVI file an AVPacket having size 0 and data NULL is a skip
> frame and I tried same method to my program. However doing so for
> a MKV file caused error. So I changed to write an AVPacket having
> size 4 and data of simple byte sequence like 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x1.
> However files created that way cannot be played by VLC or WMP
> although players like PotPlayer could play.
> It seemed to me that filling such skip packets were not valid.
> 
> If so what is a valid way of inserting skip frames to MKV files
> when using av_write_packet?

Have you tried just sending the next packet with an increased PTS? As 
far as I remember Matroska stores the timestamp for each packet (in 
microseconds) while AVI does not. So dummy fill packets should not be 
necessary for Matroska.

Regards,
Tobias