[MEncoder-users] capture: synchronization problems

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 01:02:50AM -0800, RC wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 03:32:32 -0500
> D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> 
> > This is totally unnecessary and shows that the author either doesn't
> > understand the avi file format, or used to not understand it and is
> > now too lazy to fix it
> 
> Actually I believe it's the 3rd option. The application was
> originally limited to CBR, and the time-map is a workaround to
> handle VBR properly. Same goes for it's handling of non-AVI files,
> by building having to build an index :-(

The index already IS a time map...
BTW VBR avi is the easy case. It's CBR that's difficult to support
because of the stupid ways people can store it in avi..

Rich