[MEncoder-users] [ANNOUNCE] new MPEG muxer in cvs

[Nico Sabbi]

Rich Felker wrote:

>On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 08:53:09PM +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:
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>>Strongly advised:
>>- when encoding video (e.g. without -ovc copy) _always_ use -vf softskip
>>(btw, I have and had a lot of problems with harddup, so I don't use it);
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>If softskip affects muxing or if harddup breaks muxing, there is a bug
>in your muxer, i.e. it is using information it shouldn't....
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none of it at all: it turns out that I forgot to remove some 
experibroken code
from my local copy of mencoder :)

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>>- using -ofps is generally quite bad (with the old muxer, too), better 
>>use -speed newfr/oldfr
>>(eventually resampling audio)
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>This sounds like part of the same bug... Presumably you are using the
>input fps/timestamps somewhere...
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>Rich
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not at all. As in the old code I work _only_ on the frames passed to the 
muxer, parsing the
respective headers and assignining timestamps appropriately